Mace

Quick meaning: Mace is a noun meaning A heavy fighting club.

Meaning

A heavy fighting club.

More Meanings

1. A ceremonial form of this weapon.
2. An officer who carries a mace as a token of authority.
3. A knobbed mallet used by curriers to make leather supple when dressing it.
4. To hit someone or something with a mace.
5. A spice obtained from the outer layer of the kernel of the fruit of the nutmeg.
6. 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.
7. (archaic) A billiard cue.

Example Sentences

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

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 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

When Reynaldo and Willie had burst into Larkey's drug store to confront him, the old man had maced Willie square in the eyes with an aerosol can of spermicidal birth-control foam.

Word Forms

• maces
• macing
• maced

Synonyms for mace

Depending on context, synonyms include chee, tsien, macer, macebearer.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include macer, macebearer, truncheon, baton, laundering, kara.

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