mace.
A heavy fighting club.
Meaning & usage
A heavy fighting club.
A ceremonial form of this weapon.
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.
An officer who carries a mace as a token of authority.
A knobbed mallet used by curriers to make leather supple when dressing it.
A flail.
A billiard cue.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English mace, borrowed from Old French mace, mache, from Vulgar Latin *mattia, *mattea, matia, (compare Italian mazza, Spanish maza), probably from Proto-West Germanic *mattjō (“cutting tool, hoe”).
To hit someone or something with a mace.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English mace, borrowed from Old French mace, mache, from Vulgar Latin *mattia, *mattea, matia, (compare Italian mazza, Spanish maza), probably from Proto-West Germanic *mattjō (“cutting tool, hoe”).
A spice obtained from the outer layer of the kernel of the fruit of the nutmeg.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English, from re-interpretation of macys as a plural (as with pea); from Latin macir. Doublet of macir.
Tear gas or pepper spray, especially for personal use.
Where this word comes from
From the name of one brand of the spray, Mace. Pepper spray may be derived from cayenne pepper, but not from mace (etymology 2 above), which is a different spice; rather, it was named after the weapon (etymology 1).
To spray in defense or attack with mace (pepper spray or tear gas) using a hand-held device.
To spray a similar noxious chemical in defense or attack using an available hand-held device such as an aerosol spray can.
Where this word comes from
From the name of one brand of the spray, Mace. Pepper spray may be derived from cayenne pepper, but not from mace (etymology 2 above), which is a different spice; rather, it was named after the weapon (etymology 1).
An old money of account in China equal to one tenth of a tael.
An old weight of 57.98 grains, approximately 3.8 grams.
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Javanese [Term?] and Malay [Term?], meaning "a bean".
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