Definitionen
1.NounA fixture for a light, which holds it and provides a screen against wind or against a naked flame or lightbulb.
A candlestick (holder for a candle, especially a circular tube, with a brim, into which a candle is inserted), either with a handle for carrying, or with a bracket for attaching to a wall.
2.NounA candlestick (holder for a candle, especially a circular tube, with a brim, into which a candle is inserted), either with a handle for carrying, or with a bracket for attaching to a wall.
3.NounA head or a skull.
4.NounA poll tax; a mulct or fine.
5.NounAn act of sconcing; very similar to a fine at Cambridge University, though a sconce is the act of issuing a penalty rather than the penalty itself."."
6.VerbTo impose a fine, a forfeit, or a mulct.
7.VerbDuring a meal or as part of a drinking game, to announce some (usually outrageous) deed such that anyone who has done it must drink; similar to I have never; commonly associated with crewdates; very similar to fining at Cambridge University."I sconce anyone who has ever…"
8.NounA type of small fort or other fortification, especially as built to defend a pass or ford.
9.NounA hut for protection and shelter; a stall.
10.NounA squinch.
11.NounA fragment of a floe of ice.
12.NounA fixed seat or shelf.
13.VerbTo shut within a sconce; to imprison.