Mace Definition

mās

maced, macing

noun

Such a compound, or a container of it.

Webster's New World

A ceremonial staff borne or displayed as the symbol of authority of a legislative body.

American Heritage

A macebearer.

American Heritage

A heavy medieval war club with a spiked or flanged metal head, used to crush armor.

American Heritage

A thin fleshy red covering that surrounds the kernel of the nutmeg, dried and used as a spice.

American Heritage

Synonyms:

pronoun

A brand of tear gas.

Wiktionary

verb

To spray with Mace.

Webster's New World

(informal) To spray a similar noxious chemical in defense or attack using an available hand-held device such as an aerosol spray can.

1989 Hiaasen, Carl, Skin Tight, Ballantine Books, New York, ch.22.

Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Mace

Singular:

mace

Plural:

Middle English, from Anglo-Norman mace, mache, from Late Latin mattia or *mattea (compare Italian mazza, Spanish maza), from Proto-Indo-European *mat (“hoe, plow") (compare Latin mateola (“hoe"), Old High German medela (“plow"), Russian мотыга (motýga, “hoe, mattock"), Persian آماج (āmāǰ) "˜plow', Sanskrit मत्य (matyá, “harrow")).

From Wiktionary
Middle English from Old French from Medieval Latin macis alteration of Latin macir fragrant ailanthus resin from Greek makir

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Middle English from Old French masse from Vulgar Latin mattea

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Borrowing from Javanese and Malay, meaning "a bean".

From Wiktionary
Sense of tear gas, from the trade name Mace.

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