sconce

A fixture for a light, which holds it and provides a screen against wind or against a naked flame or lightbulb.

[…]tapers put into lanterns or sconces of several-coloured, oiled paper, that the wind might not annoy them.

Golden sconces hang not on the walls.

A fixture for a light, which holds it and provides a screen against wind or against a naked flame or lightbulb.

Taking the candle […] she stood with the little flat brass sconce in her hand.

This strange scene was lightd up by candles in high and havy brass sconces.

A head or a skull.

Novv as I am a Chriſtian anſvver me, / In vvhat ſafe place you haue beſtovv'd my monie; / Or I ſhall breake that merrie ſconce of yours / That ſtands on tricks, vvhen I am vndiſpos'd: / VVhere is the thouſand Markes thou hadſt of me?

Why does he suffer this rude knave now, to knock him about the sconce with a dirty shovel, and will not tell him of his action of battery?

A poll tax; a mulct or fine.

I'll gladly pay a sconce

An 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.

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The table opposite started singing "shit sconce, shit scone^([sic]), shit sconce, shit sconce" […]

To impose a fine, a forfeit, or a mulct.

The Rector sconced him in the buttery-book, but Webberly “wiped it off, with irreverent and unbeseeming language.” For this, he had to apologise, and go without his commons for three months.

During 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…