Mace

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  • n mace a ceremonial staff carried as a symbol of office or authority
  • n mace spice made from the dried fleshy covering of the nutmeg seed
  • n mace an official who carries a mace of office
  • n Mace (trademark) a liquid that temporarily disables a person; prepared as an aerosol and sprayed in the face, it irritates the eyes and causes dizziness and immobilization
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• Interesting fact: In 1870, British boxing champ Jim Mace and American boxer Joe Coburn fought for three hours and 48 minutes without landing one punch.
• • Mace A heavy staff or club of metal; a spiked club; -- used as weapon in war before the general use of firearms, especially in the Middle Ages, for breaking metal armor. "Death with his mace petrific . . . smote."
  • n Mace (Bot) A kind of spice; the aril which partly covers nutmegs. See Nutmeg.☞ Red mace is the aril of Myristica tingens, and white mace that of Myristica Otoba, -- East Indian trees of the same genus with the nutmeg tree.
  • Mace A knobbed mallet used by curriers in dressing leather to make it supple.
  • n Mace mās A money of account in China equal to one tenth of a tael; also, a weight of 57.98 grains.
  • Mace (Billiards) A rod for playing billiards, having one end suited to resting on the table and pushed with one hand.
  • Mace A staff borne by, or carried before, a magistrate as an ensign of his authority. "Swayed the royal mace ."
  • Mace An officer who carries a mace as an emblem of authority; a macebearer.
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• • n mace A weapon for striking, consisting of a heavy head, commonly of metal, with a handle or staff, usually of such length as to be conveniently wielded with one hand; by extension, any similar weapon. The head is often spiked, and sometimes consists of six, eight, or more radiating blades, grouped around a central spike, all of steel.
  • n mace A scepter; a staff of office having somewhat the form of the weapon of war defined above. Maces are borne before or by officials of various ranks in many countries, as a symbol of authority or badge of office. The mace on the table of the British House of Lords or House of Commons represents the authority of the House.
  • n mace A light stick with a flat head formerly used in playing billiards to push the cue-ball when out of reach for the proper stroke with the cue: superseded by the bridge, or rest for the cue.
  • n mace A curriers' mallet with a knobbed face, made by the insertion of pins with egg-shaped heads, used in leather-dressing to soften and supple tanned hides and enable them to absorb the oil, etc.
  • n mace A bulrush or cattail.
  • n mace A spice consisting of the dried arillode (false aril) or covering of the seed of the nutmeg, Myristica fragrans, which is a fleshy net-like envelop somewhat resembling the husk of a filbert. When fresh it is of a beautiful crimson hue. It is extremely fragrant and aromatic, and is used chiefly in cooking or in pickles. Mace is similar to nutmeg in its pharmaco-dynamic properties. See cut under arillode.
  • n mace A small gold coin of Atchin in Sumatra, weighing 9 grains, and worth about 26 cents.
  • n mace The tenth part of a Chinese tael or ounce: as a money of account it is equal to 58 grains of pure silver. See tael, liang, and candareen.
  • n mace Swindling; a swindler; a swindling loan-office.
  • mace To swindle.
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• • n Mace mās a staff used as a mark of authority: a light, flat-headed stick in use at billiards before the introduction of the bridge or cue-rest: formerly, a weapon of war, consisting of a staff headed with a heavy spiked ball of iron: a mallet used by a currier in dressing leather
  • n Mace mās a kind of spice: the second coat of the nutmeg.
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