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单词 macing
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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024
mace1 /meɪs/USA pronunciation   n. [countable]
  1. a clublike weapon, often with a spiked metal head.
  2. Governmenta ceremonial staff that symbolizes the office of an official, used in processions.

mace2 /meɪs/USA pronunciation   n. [uncountable]
  1. Fooda spice made from the inner husk of the nutmeg.

Mace /meɪs/USA pronunciation  Trademark. Maced, Mac•ing. [uncountable]
  1. Trademarks, Chemistrya chemical spray that causes severe eye irritation, used against rioters or an attacker.

v. [+ object]
  1. to spray with Mace:[sometimes: mace]He maced his assailant.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
mace1  (mās),USA pronunciation n. 
  1. a clublike armor-breaking weapon of war, often with a flanged or spiked metal head, used chiefly in the Middle Ages.
  2. Governmenta ceremonial staff carried before or by certain officials as a symbol of office.
  3. Governmentmacebearer.
  4. Games[Billiards.]a light stick with a flat head, formerly used at times instead of a cue.
  • Vulgar Latin *mattea; akin to Latin matteola kind of mallet; compare Sanskrit matya harrow
  • Old French (compare French masse) large mallet
  • Middle English 1250–1300

mace2  (mās),USA pronunciation n. 
  1. Fooda spice ground from the layer between a nutmeg shell and its outer husk, resembling nutmeg in flavor.
  • Latin maccis a spice
  • Middle French
  • Middle English, back formation from macis (taken as plural) 1350–1400

Mace  (mās),USA pronunciation [Trademark.]
  1. Trademarks, Chemistrya nonlethal spray containing purified tear gas and chemical solvents that temporarily incapacitate a person mainly by causing eye and skin irritations: used esp. as a means of subduing rioters. Also called Chemical Mace. 

Mace  (mās),USA pronunciation v.t., Maced, Mac•ing. 
  1. (sometimes l.c.) to attack with Mace spray.
  • see Mace

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
mace /meɪs/ n
  1. a club, usually having a spiked metal head, used esp in the Middle Ages
  2. a ceremonial staff of office carried by certain officials
  3. See macebearer
  4. an early form of billiard cue
Etymology: 13th Century: from Old French, probably from Vulgar Latin mattea (unattested); apparently related to Latin mateola mallet
mace /meɪs/ n
  1. a spice made from the dried aril round the nutmeg seed
Etymology: 14th Century: formed as a singular from Old French macis (wrongly assumed to be plural), from Latin macir an oriental spice
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