Meaning of Mace | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Alternative letter-case form of mace (tear gas or pepper spray)
   alt-of, countable, uncountable
2. An old money of account in China equal to one tenth of a tael.
3. Initialism of major adverse cardiovascular event.
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
4. A municipality of Croatia.
5. A heavy fighting club.
6. A spice obtained from the outer layer of the kernel of the fruit of the nutmeg.
   uncountable
7. Tear gas or pepper spray, especially for personal use.
   countable, uncountable
8. A male given name, a name derived from the war instrument, a mace
   countable
9. An old weight of 57.98 grains, approximately 3.8 grams.
10. A ceremonial form of this weapon.
11. A surname.
    countable
12. 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.
13. An English surname transferred from the given name.
    countable, uncountable
14. An officer who carries a mace as a token of authority.
15. A surname from Norman.
    countable, uncountable
16. A knobbed mallet used by curriers to make leather supple when dressing it.
17. An unincorporated community in Walnut Township, Montgomery County, Indiana, United States.
    countable, uncountable
18. A billiard cue.
    archaic

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Examples

“The Mace is an ancient weapon, formerly much used by cavalry of all nations, and likewise by ecclesiastics, who in consequence of their tenures, frequently took the field, but were by a canon of the church forbidden to wield the sword.”

“I am a king that find thee; and I know 'Tis not the balm, the sceptre, and the ball, The sword, the mace, the crown imperial, The intertissued robe of gold and pearl”

“On the left were the Commons with their Speaker, attended by the mace. The southern door opened: and the Prince and Princess of Orange, side by side, entered, and took their place under the canopy of state.”

“In the foreground one man uses the "head knife” to work over the skin on the beam, while another softens a skin with the currier's mace.”

“I must have saffron to color the warden pies; mace; dates, none -- that's out of my note; nutmegs, seven; a race or two of ginger, but that I may beg; four pounds of prunes, and as many of raisins o' th' sun.”

“[…] was sentenced on Friday to 10 years in prison for shooting a man in the eye with a paintball gun, spraying people in the face with bear mace and aiming a loaded handgun at a crowd, prosecutors said.”

“The decimals of the tael, called mace, candareen, and cash (tsien, fǎn, and li) , are employed in reckoning bullion.”

“Prior to the House passing the legislation, only four Republicans had joined all Democrats in signing a petition to force a vote - Thomas Massie, Lauren Boebert, Nancy Mace and Marjorie Taylor Greene.”

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