Definitions for Mace

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Spelling: [meys]
IPA: /meɪs/

Mace is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 35 anagrams from letters in Mace (acem).

Definitions for Mace

noun

  1. a clublike armor-breaking weapon of war, often with a flanged or spiked metal head, used chiefly in the Middle Ages.
  2. a ceremonial staff carried before or by certain officials as a symbol of office.
  3. macebearer.
  4. Billiards. a light stick with a flat head, formerly used at times instead of a cue.
  5. a spice ground from the layer between a nutmeg shell and its outer husk, resembling nutmeg in flavor.

verb (used with object)

  1. (sometimes lowercase) to attack with Mace spray.

Origin of Mace

1250-1300; Middle English Old French (compare French masse) large mallet Vulgar Latin *mattea; akin to Latin matteola kind of mallet; compare Sanskrit matya harrow

Examples for Mace

In China, he is often represented with a mace (symbolizing a thunderbolt) instead of a sword.

Having cleaned them nicely, rub every part well with a seasoning of white pepper and salt, mace and allspice in fine powder.

Larson told Bundermann that they needed cover fire before they could make a run for it and try to bring mace to the Aid Station.

Some later claimed that a cop shook a can of mace, an uncalled for act of aggravation, one man said.

Clear the gravy from the fat, and put into it four ounces of boiled rice, an onion stuck with cloves, and a blade of mace.

He opened the back door of the Humvee, where mace was trying ease himself out.

Jaime was taught to fight with sword and lance and mace, and I was taught to smile and sing and please.

If you are told to use cloves, and have none, a bit of mace may be substituted.

In 1988, producer mace Neufeld approached Costner about The Hunt for Red October.

Slice to these the crumb of four small rolls, and then strain to it three quarts of good veal gravy, boiled with a blade of mace.

Word Value for Mace
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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