| 单词 | to build a sconce |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto build a sconce c. slang. †to build a sconce (see quot. 1730). ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > solvency > be solvent [verb (intransitive)] > take credit creancec1386 to run into scores or in score1568 to run or go on or upon (the) score1568 score1594 to build a sconce1630 tick1648 to chalk ita1704 1630 R. Brathwait Eng. Gentleman 41 These have beene Men in their time,..but now their fortunes falling to an ebbe,..they are enforced..to erect a Sconce, whereto the Roarers make recourse, as to their Rendevou. 1640 T. Nabbes Bride iii. i By battering downe with th'engine of their purse Some sconch your drunken valour in a taverne Hath built with sack. 1649 Duke of Newcastle Country Captaine i. i. 7 Vnd. Hee shall read warrs to me and fortification. Tho. For a neede I could teach you to build a sconce Sir. 1687 [see sconce-building adj. at Compounds]. 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew (at cited word) To build a large Sconce, to run deep upon Tick, or Trust. a1704 T. Brown Lett. from Dead (new ed.) in Wks. (1707) II. ii. 211 A Lieutenant and Ensign, whom once I admitted upon trust,..built a Sconce and left me in the lurch. 1730 N. Bailey et al. Dictionarium Britannicum To build a Sconce, to run a Score at an Ale-house, Tavern, &c. so as to be afraid to go there, for fear of being dunn'd. 1760 C. Johnstone Chrysal I. ii. viii. 194 Cribbing from the till, and building sconces, and such like tricks. 1765 O. Goldsmith Ess. viii, in Misc. Wks. (1895) 307/2 He ran into debt with everybody that would trust him, and none could build a sconce better than he. < as lemmas |
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