Word Finder - mace

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A heavy fighting club.

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1786, 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. — Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 51.

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A ceremonial form of this weapon.

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1598, 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... — William Shakespeare, Henvry V, Act IV, Scene I, line 259.

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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.

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An officer who carries a mace as an emblem of authority.

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

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A billiard cue.

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To hit someone or something with a mace.

Looking at the mace he said, "What shall we do with this bauble?"

Odo, Bishop Of Bayeux, Wielding His Mace.

Then I turned to where Weena lay beside my iron mace.

The Mayoral party, led in by the mace bearer, was a spectacular sight as they took their places on the dais.

In the case of Mace Griffin Bounty Hunter, it's a seamless blend of outer space dogfights and on-foot action.

Crush the mace blades (or ground mace) and add them to the pan.

She began to wonder if she needed to bring a can of mace.

When the fruit is collected the pericarp is first removed; then the arillus is carefully stripped off and dried, in which state it forms the mace of commerce.

The modern name, in the form Xapa, appears in 2 Mace.

The security of the University Mace and the other finery is also down to us.

The Mace The Town's Mace is made of silver gilt.

You ask your friend to buy a large stash of mace, pepper spray and stun guns next time he goes to USA 29.

Conch, Disk and Mace are the attributes held in three of Her four hands (the fourth would normally hold a lotus ).

He is the warrior deity carrying the hundred knotted mace from whom all demons flee in fear.

Odo was present at the Battle of Hastings and is shown on the tapestry holding a mace and rallying troops.

All Mayors will have a chain of office, but some will have other insignia including a mace or robes of office.

The Esquire Bedell bears the mace in the Queenâs academic procession.

He sank onto a couch, then looked up to see the battle crazed glare of an Iranian soldier wielding a heavy mace.

The city's ceremonial mace, now on display in the Guildhall Museum, dates from that year.

The marsh is dominated by soft rush and there are small stands of great reed mace.

In silhouette, the ensemble is akin to a huge medieval mace.

This ceremony is also special because it marks the first public outing for a new mace.

We also came across a patch of reed mace going to seed.

At the same time he also gave the City its magnificent silver gilt mace.

However during the talks the Lord Mayor of London attacked Wat Tyler with the city mace.

The Visitor Center overlooks a small marshland full of reed mace and reed sweet grass.

The ceremonial mace of today is a highly ornamental descendant of the prehistoric club!

Today a highly ornate mace forms the centerpiece in the civic regalia of many councils across the country.

This month help to remove invasive reed mace from the pond in Haughton Dale Local Nature reserve.

Great efforts were made to obtain mercy for the accused, but the crime was considered too heinous, and the pope (Clement VIII.) refused to grant a pardon; on the i ith of September 1599, Beatrice and Lucrezia were beheaded, and Giacomo, after having been tortured with redhot pincers, was killed with a mace, drawn and quartered.

The macebearer and the town husband received £ 6 each, and the two serjeants at mace £ 5 each.

If you carry a true weapon like mace or a gun, be sure you know how to use it properly.

These venerable veterans were joined by Qui-Gon Jinn (Obi Wan's instructor), Mace Windu, Padme Amidala, Jar Jar Binks and Senator Palpatine - the future Emperor.

As the Witch-king he established his realm in the north, and his weapons of choice were the sword, morgul knife and mace.

The drum major leads the marching band and moves his mace in time with the music.

The principal exports from all the regencies alike are black and white pepper, bamboo (rotan), gums, caoutchouc, copra, nutmegs, mace and gambir.

Three men with Greek or Latin names are writing to some kind of assembly in a city of Mace donia.

The principal articles of commerce in the Banda group are nutmegs and mace.

The production amounts annually to nearly 1,500,000 lb of nutmegs, and 350,000 lb of mace.

In addition to the fatty acids mentioned already there occur also, although in much smaller quantities, other fatty acids combined with glycerin, as natural glycerides, such as the glyceride of butyric acid in butterfat, of caproic, caprylic and capric acids in butter-fat and in coco-nut oil, lauric acid in coco-nut and palm-nut oils, and myristic acid in mace butter.

You can add allspice, cardamom, clove, ginger, mace, peppercorns, or star anise to your mulled wine mix if you have them handy.

Nergal was pictured as a lion and on boundary-stone monuments his symbol is a mace surmounted by the head of a lion.

Threats of worse things came subsequently to Lenthall's ears, and, taking the mace with him, he left London on the 29th to join the army and Fairfax.

This may have been Amos's Gilgal and was almost certainly that of r Mace.

The town possesses almshouses founded in 1426, a picturesque cross, and a curious ancient mace of the former corporation.

The vegetation of the small and narrow islands, all encompassed by the sea, is very luxuriant, and the products, principally nutmegs, mace, and other spices, include also rice and sago.

When thoroughly dried the shells are broken with a wooden mallet or flat board and the nutmegs picked out and sorted, the smaller and inferior ones being reserved for the expression of the fixed oil which they contain, and which forms the so-called oil of mace.

The corporation consists of a mayor, 3 aldermen and 9 councillors; and possesses a remarkable ancient mace, of 15thcentury workmanship. Area, 321 acres.

Their duties are chiefly processional, the junior or sub-bedel being the official attendant on the vice-chancellor, before whom he bears a silver mace.

This phenomenon was minutely studied by Boyle, who found that solutions in some essential oils (oil of cloves) showed the same character, whilst in others (oils of mace and aniseed) there was no phosphorescence.