MACE

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.

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mace

Noun

  1. A heavy fighting club.
  2. A ceremonial form of this weapon.
  3. A common name for some types of tear gas and pepper spray.
  4. 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.

Noun (etymology 2)

  1. An old money of account in China equal to one tenth of a tael.
  2. An old weight of 57.98 grains.

Noun (etymology 3)

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

Verb

  1. To spray in defense or attack with mace (pepper spray, or, formerly, tear gas) using a hand-held device.
  2. 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:
  3. To hit someone or something with a mace.
    Get over here! I'll mace you good!


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