MACE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Mace mean? 

• MACE (noun)
  The noun MACE has 4 senses:

1. (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. an official who carries a mace of office

3. spice made from the dried fleshy covering of the nutmeg seed

4. a ceremonial staff carried as a symbol of office or authority

  Familiarity information: MACE used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MACE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

Chemical Mace; Mace

Hypernyms ("Mace" is a kind of...):

chloroacetophenone; CN gas (a tear gas that is weaker than CS gas but lasts longer)

Domain usage:

trademark (a formally registered symbol identifying the manufacturer or distributor of a product)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An official who carries a mace of office

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

mace; macebearer; macer

Hypernyms ("mace" is a kind of...):

functionary; official (a worker who holds or is invested with an office)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Spice made from the dried fleshy covering of the nutmeg seed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("mace" is a kind of...):

spice (any of a variety of pungent aromatic vegetable substances used for flavoring food)

Meronyms (substance of "mace"):

nutmeg (hard aromatic seed of the nutmeg tree used as spice when grated or ground)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A ceremonial staff carried as a symbol of office or authority

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("mace" is a kind of...):

staff (a rod carried as a symbol)

 Context examples 

“And so say I!” shouted Sir Oliver, throwing his mace high into the air and catching it again by the handle.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Three pirates had fallen before him, and he had wounded Spade-beard in the neck, when the Norman giant sprang at him from the side with a slashing blow from his deadly mace.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They were armed to the teeth with lance, sword, and mace, with square shields notched at the upper right-hand corner to serve as a spear-rest.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Burley lay senseless, stunned by a blow from a mace, and half of the men-at-arms lay littered upon the ground around him.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Fiercely he strove to disengage his weapon, but Hordle John bent his arm slowly back until, with a sharp crack, like a breaking stave, it turned limp in his grasp, and the mace dropped from the nerveless fingers.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My master has heard that there is jousting here, and prospect of honorable advancement, so he has come to ask that some English cavalier will vouchsafe for the love of his lady to run a course with sharpened lances with him, or to meet him with sword, mace, battle-axe, or dagger.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The giant Tete-noire, towering above his fellows and clad from head to foot in plate of proof, led on his boarders, waving a huge mace in the air, with which he struck to the deck every man who approached him.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It hath ever grieved me that I had not his name, for he smote upon me with a mace and went upon his way ere I was in condition to have much speech with him; but his arms were an allurion in chief above a fess azure.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)