SOCK'ET, n.
1. The little hollow tube or place in which a candle is fixed in the candlestick. And in the sockets oily bubbles dance.
2. Any hollow thing or place which receives and holds something else as the sockets of the teeth or of the eyes. his eyeballs in their hollow sockets sink. Gomphosis is the connection of a tooth to its socket.
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