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Definition mace

Etymology 1

From Middle English mace, borrowed from Old French mace, mache, from Late Latin mattia or Vulgar Latin *mattea (compare modern French masse, Italian mazza, Spanish maza), probably from Latin mateola (“hoe”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mat (“hoe, plow”) (compare Old High German medela (“plow”), Russian ??????? (motýga, “hoe, mattock”), Persian ????‎ (?m??) ‘plow’, Sanskrit ???? (matyá, “harrow”)).

Noun

mace (plural maces)

1. A heavy fighting club.
2. A ceremonial form of this weapon.
3. A long baton used by some drum majors to keep time and lead a marching band. If this baton is referred to as a mace, by convention it has a ceremonial often decorative head, which, if of metal, usually is hollow and sometimes intricately worked.
4. An officer who carries a mace as an emblem of authority.
5. A knobbed mallet used by curriers in dressing leather to make it supple.
6. (archaic) A billiard cue.

Verb

mace (third-person singular simple present maces, present participle macing, simple past and past participle maced)

1. To hit someone or something with a mace.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Javanese [Term?] and Malay, meaning "a bean".

Noun

mace (plural maces)

1. An old money of account in China equal to one tenth of a tael.
2. An old weight of 57.98 grains.

Etymology 3

From Middle English, from re-interpretation of macis as a plural (compare pea); ultimately from Latin maccis (name of an unidentified spice).

Noun

mace

1. A spice obtained from the outer layer of the kernel of the fruit of the nutmeg.

Etymology 4

From the name of one brand of the spray, Mace.

Noun

mace (plural maces)

1. Tear gas or pepper spray, especially for personal use.

Verb

mace (third-person singular simple present maces, present participle macing, simple past and past participle maced)

1. To spray in defense or attack with mace (pepper spray or tear gas) using a hand-held device.
2. (informal) To spray a similar noxious chemical in defense or attack using an available hand-held device such as an aerosol spray can.

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