1736 Canting Dictionary / S / SCONCE [v]
To build a large sconce; To run deep upon Tick or Trust.
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Entry taken from 1736 Canting Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey.
Sconce in the 1811 Vulgar Tongue
Also see examples in Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes collected by John S. Farmer (1896).