To hide; to put under cover. Literally, to cover with a sconce, or fort. (German, schanze, a fort, Danish, schans; Swedish, skans; Latin, abscondo, to hide.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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