Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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Quotation dates: 1760
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¶SCONCE, v.2 To make the rebate or reveal for a window or door in a wall, a nonce or erron. reduced form of Scuncheon, q.v.Rnf. 1760 W. M. Metcalfe Lordship Paisley (1912) 39:
By William Weir, mason, for . . . sconcing the windows of the house in the Closs.
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