mace

A heavy fighting club.

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.

A ceremonial form of this weapon.

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

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 wo

An officer who carries a mace as a token of authority.

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.

A knobbed mallet used by curriers to make leather supple when dressing it.

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.

To hit someone or something with a mace.

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

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.