Sŏck'et, n.
n. [From sock, supra.]
Sense 1. An opening into which any thing is fitted; any hollow thing or place which receives and holds something else; as, the sockets of the teeth.
His eyeballs in their hollow sockets sink. Dryden.
Sense 2. Especially, the little hollow tube or place in which a candle is fixed in the candlestick.
And in the sockets oily bubbles dance. Dryden.