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Noah Webster's 1828 American Dictionary
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In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed... No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people. Preface to 1828 Dictionary
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1828 Definition
SCONCE, n.
SCONCE, n.
SCONCE, v.t. To mulet; to fine. [A low word and not in use.]
1913 Definition
A fortification, or work for defense; a fort.
No sconce or fortress of his raising was ever known either to have been forced, or yielded up, or quitted. Milton. A hut for protection and shelter; a
stall.
One that . . . must raise a sconce by the highway and sell switches. Beau. *** Fl. A piece of armor for the head] headpiece;
helmet.
I must get a sconce for my head. Shak. Fig.: The head; the skull; also, brains;
sense; discretion.
[Colloq.]
To knock him about the sconce with a dirty shovel. Shak. A poll tax; a mulct or fine.
Johnson. A protection for a light; a
lantern or cased support for a candle; hence, a fixed hanging or
projecting candlestick.
Tapers put into lanterns or sconces of several- colored, oiled paper, that the wind might not annoy them. Evelyn. Golden sconces hang not on the walls. Dryden. Hence, the circular tube, with a brim, in a
candlestick, into which the candle is inserted.
A squinch.
A fragment of a floe of ice.
Kane. A fixed seat
or shelf.
[Prov. Eng.] To shut up in a sconce] to
imprison; to insconce.
[Obs.]
Immure him, sconce him, barricade him in 't. Marston. To mulct; to fine.
[Obs.]
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