mace
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(mās) 
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mace2 (mās)
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An aromatic spice made from the dried, waxy, scarlet or yellowish covering that partly encloses the kernel of the nutmeg.
n.
- A ceremonial staff borne or displayed as the symbol of authority of a legislative body.
- A macebearer.
- A heavy medieval war club with a spiked or flanged metal head, used to crush armor.
[Middle English, from Old French masse, from Vulgar Latin *mattea.]
mace2 (mās)
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An aromatic spice made from the dried, waxy, scarlet or yellowish covering that partly encloses the kernel of the nutmeg.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Medieval Latin macis, alteration of Latin macir, fragrant ailanthus resin, from Greek makir.]
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[MAYS] This spice tastes and smells like a pungent version of nutmeg, and for a very good reason . . . Mace is the bright red membrane that covers the nutmeg seed. After the membrane is removed and dried it becomes a yellow-orange color. It's sold ground and, less frequently, whole (in which case it's called a "blade"). Mace is used to flavor all manner of foods, sweet to savory.
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mace
A cynical view of the world by Ambrose Bierce
n.
A staff of office signifying authority. Its form, that of a heavy club, indicates its original purpose and use in dissuading from dissent.
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IN BRIEF: A heavy spiked club. Also: A kind of spice made from nutmeg.
The cookie recipe called for mace.
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categories related to 'mace'
- Blades, Clubs, and Projectiles - mace: spiked heavy club, usu. metal
- Herbs and Spices
- Symbolic and Emblematic Attire - mace: ornamental staff carried as emblem of authority
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Look up Mace, mace, or maces in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. |
Mace may refer to:
- Mace (club), a weapon with a heavy head on a solid shaft used to bludgeon opponents
- Flail (weapon), a spiked weapon on a chain
- Ceremonial mace, an ornamented mace used in civic ceremonies
- In a debate, competitions can be named "the mace" after the ceremonial mace
- Mace (spray), a brand of tear gas, often used by police
- Mace Security International (company), a pepper spray manufacturer in the US
- Mace, the forerunner of the cue in early cue sports that was generally used to shove rather than strike the cue ball
- Mace (company), a construction firm in the UK
- Mace (store), a convenience store chain in the United Kingdom and Ireland
- Mace (unit), an English term for a traditional Chinese measurement of weight
- Mace, a cooking spice obtained from dried covering of the nutmeg fruit seed
- MGM-13 Mace, a U.S. tactical surface-to-surface missile
- Mace: The Dark Age, a 1997 fighting game for arcades and the Nintendo 64
- Major Atmospheric Cerenkov Experiment Telescope, a telescope being built by ECIL to be placed at Hanle
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Personal names
Fiction
- Mace Windu, a character in the Star Wars movies
- Mace Tyrell, a character in A Song of Ice and Fire books
- Mace (G.I. Joe), a character in the G.I. Joe universe
- Mace is the name of a character in the 1995 film Strange Days
- Mace is the name of a character in the 2007 film Sunshine
Places
- Macé, a commune of Normandy, France
- Hill 262 in Normandy, physical feature known as The Mace during World War II
- Mace, Indiana, a small town in the United States
- Mače, Croatia, a village and municipality in Croatia
- Mače, Slovenia, a village in Slovenia
MACE (acronym)
- Media Archive for Central England, a public sector regional film archive that collects, preserves and provides access to moving image materials
- MACE (codec), (Macintosh Audio Compression and Expansion) an audio encoding system
- Mar Athanasius College of Engineering (MACE), an Indian engineering college
- Malone antegrade continence enema; see Mitrofanoff appendicovesicostomy
- MACE (gaming convention), Mid-Atlantic Convention Expo gaming convention
- MACE, Member American College of Epidemiology
- Metropolitan Architectural Consortium for Education. See Consortium of Local Authorities Special Programme (CLASP)
- Major Adverse Cardiac Event. Criteria for evaluating cardiac treatments such as angioplasty.
- M.A.C.E. Music, American record label
- Models And Counter-Examples a computer software for model generation
- MACE, the Mesosphere and Climate Experiment, an atmospheric remote-sensing project proposed for the International Space Station ISS
See also
- All pages beginning with "Mace"
- All pages with titles containing "Mace"
- Mase (pronounced "mace", born 1975), American rapper
- Maze (disambiguation)
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Translations:
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Mace
Dansk (Danish)
1.
n. - stridsøkse, scepter, stav, stridskolbe
2.
n. - muskatblomme
Nederlands (Dutch)
staf, wapenstok, foelie, stafdrager, bagatellestok, mace (soort traangas ter zelfverdediging), met mace besproeien
Français (French)
1.
n. - masse d'armes, masse (le cérémonial)
2.
n. - macis (de la noix de muscade)
Deutsch (German)
1.
n. - Keule, Amtsstab
2.
n. - (Bot.) Muskatblüte
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - σκήπτρο, ράβδος, κηρύκειο, είδος δακρυγόνου αέριου, (μαγειρ.) σκόνη μοσχοκάρυδου, (ιστ.) σιδερένιο ρόπαλο, κεφαλοθραύστης
Português (Portuguese)
n. - bastão (m), macis (flor da noz moscada) (f)
Español (Spanish)
1.
n. - macís, macia (especia)
2.
n. - maza, bastón de mando, macero
Svenska (Swedish)
n. - muskotblomma, spikklubba, stav
中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
1. 锤矛, 持权杖者, 权杖
2. 豆蔻香料
中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
1.
n. - 豆蔻香料
2.
n. - 錘矛, 持權杖者, 權杖
한국어 (Korean)
1.
n. - 전곤(곤봉 모양의 무기), 직장(시장, 총장 등 직책의 상징), 끝이 납작한 당구채
2.
n. - 육두구 가루
日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 棍棒, 重い警棒, 平頭の球突き棒, 棍棒状の権標, 英国下院議長の職杖, メース, 権標
v. - メースで攻撃する
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) أصلي, حقيقي, القشرة الخارجيه لجوزة الطيب, عصا
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - תרסיס הגנה (מפני התקפה), מין תבלין
n. - שרביט, אלה כבדה
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