Definitions for mace
meɪsmace

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Mace, Chemical Macenoun

   (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

2. macebearer, mace, macernoun

   an official who carries a mace of office

3. macenoun

   spice made from the dried fleshy covering of the nutmeg seed

4. macenoun

   a ceremonial staff carried as a symbol of office or authority

GCIDERate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Macenoun

   A chemical preparation containing tear gas in a solvent, packaged in the form of a spray, and used to temporarily incapacitate people, such as rioters or criminals, by causing intense eye and skin irritation; also called chemical mace. It is designed to be a non-lethal weapon for defending against violent people.

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. macenoun

   A heavy fighting club.

2. macenoun

   A ceremonial form of this weapon.

3. macenoun

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

4. macenoun

   A common name for some types of tear gas and pepper spray.

5. macenoun

   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.

6. maceverb

   To spray in defense or attack with mace (pepper spray, or, formerly, tear gas) using a hand-held device.

7. maceverb

   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:

8. maceverb

   To hit someone or something with a mace.

   Get over here! I'll mace you good!

9. Macenoun

   A brand of tear gas.

10. Etymology: from mace, mache, from mattia or *mattea (compare Italian mazza, Spanish maza), from mat (compare Latin mateola, Old High German medela, Russian мотыга, Persian آماج ‘plow’, Sanskrit).

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Macenoun

   Etymology: magga , Saxon; maça, Spanish.

   1. An ensign of authority worn before magistrates.

   He mightily upheld that royal mace
   Which now thou bear’st. Fairy Queen, b. ii.

   Death with his mace petrifick smote. John Milton.

   2. [ Massue, French; massa, Latin.] A heavy blunt weapon; a club of metal.

   O murth’rous slumber!
   Lay’st thou thy leaden mace upon my boy
   That plays thee musick? William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar.

   The Turkish troops breaking in with their scymitars and heavy iron maces, made a most bloody execution. Richard Knolles.

   With his mace their monarch struck the ground;
   With inward trembling earth receiv’d the wound,
   And rising streams a ready passage found. Dryden.

   The mighty maces with such haste descend,
   They break the bones, and make the solid armour bend. John Dryden, Knight’s Tale.

   3. [ Macis, Latin.] A kind of spice.

   The nutmeg is inclosed in a threefold covering, of which the second is mace: it is a thin and flat membranaceous substance, of an oleaginous, and a yellowish colour: it has an extremely fragrant, aromatick, and agreeable smell, and a pleasant, but acrid and oleaginous taste. Mace is carminative, stomachick, and astringent. John Hill, Mat. Med.

   Water, vinegar, and honey, is a most excellent sudorifick: it is more effectual with a little mace added to it. Arbuthnot.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Macé

   Macé (French pronunciation: ​[mase]) is a commune in the Orne department in north-western France.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Macenoun

   a money of account in China equal to one tenth of a tael; also, a weight of 57.98 grains

2. Macenoun

   a kind of spice; the aril which partly covers nutmegs. See Nutmeg

3. Macenoun

   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

4. Macenoun

   a staff borne by, or carried before, a magistrate as an ensign of his authority

5. Macenoun

   an officer who carries a mace as an emblem of authority

6. Macenoun

   a knobbed mallet used by curriers in dressing leather to make it supple

7. Macenoun

   a rod for playing billiards, having one end suited to resting on the table and pushed with one hand

8. Etymology: [Trademark.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Mace

   A mace is a blunt weapon, a type of club or virge—that uses a heavy head on the end of a handle to deliver powerful blows. A mace typically consists of a strong, heavy, wooden or metal shaft, often reinforced with metal, featuring a head made of stone, copper, bronze, iron, or steel. The head of a military mace can be shaped with flanges or knobs to allow greater penetration of plate armour. The length of maces can vary considerably. The maces of foot soldiers were usually quite short. The maces of cavalrymen were longer and thus better suited for blows delivered from horseback. Two-handed maces could be even larger. Maces are rarely used today for actual combat, but a large number of government bodies, universities and other institutions have ceremonial maces and continue to display them as symbols of authority. They are often paraded in academic, parliamentary or civic rituals and processions.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Mace

   mās, n. 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′-bear′er, one who carries the mace in a procession, or before men in authority—also Mac′er. [O. Fr. mace (Fr. masse)—obs. L. matea, whence L. dim. mateola, a mallet.]

2. Mace

   mās, n. a kind of spice: the second coat of the nutmeg. [O. Fr. macis—L. macer—Gr. maker.]

Dictionary of Nautical TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. mace

   A war-club of old.

Military Dictionary and GazetteerRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. mace

   A strong, short, wooden staff, with a spiked metal ball for a head. It was a favorite weapon with knights, with the cavalry immediately succeeding them, and at all times with fighting priests, whom a canon of the church forbade to wield the sword. No armor could resist the force of a well-delivered blow from the mace. The mace is now borne before magistrates as an ensign of authority.

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Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. MACE

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Mace is ranked #2933 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Mace surname appeared 12,222 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 4 would have the surname Mace.
   
   89.6% or 10,959 total occurrences were White.
   4.1% or 504 total occurrences were Black.
   2.8% or 343 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   1.5% or 191 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   1.4% or 177 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
   0.3% or 48 total occurrences were Asian.

Matched Categories

1. • Chloroacetophenone
   • Official
   • Spice
   • Staff

Anagrams for mace »

1. acme

2. ACME

3. came

4. ECMA

5. eMac

6. EMAC

How to pronounce mace?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

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   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say mace in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of mace in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of mace in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of mace in a Sentence

1. Justin Dunlap:

   I heard like three seconds of yelling and saw a guy spray bear mace, the victim sprayed mace and launched it right into the other guy.

2. Moderate House Republican:

   Obviously, I love that man, and I have his support 1,000 %. And unfortunately, Nancy Mace doesn't.

3. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez:

   Well, it’s good to know what kind of person she is early. Also good to know that Mace is cut from the same Trump cloth of dishonesty and opportunism.

4. Nancy Mace:

   In order for us to work together and to have bipartisanship, we need the public to have trust in our system and this really is about the integrity of our election system, and like Nancy Mace [ Mace ] says, I look forward to working with anybody and everybody who's going to work with us for the American people when all is said and done.

5. Nancy Mace:

   Nancy Mace need better Republicans to stand up to President Trump.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=mace
2. ^ GCIDE
   https://gcide.gnu.org.ua/?q=mace
3. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Mace
4. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=mace
5. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mace
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mace
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=mace
8. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=mace
9. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=mace
10. ^ Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
    https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/59563/pg59563-images.html
11. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
    https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html