mace

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. A heavy fighting club.
2. A ceremonial form of this weapon.
3. 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.
4. An officer who carries a mace as a token of authority.
5. A knobbed mallet used by curriers to make leather supple when dressing it.
6. A billiard cue.

Verb

To hit someone or something with a mace.

Verb

1. To spray in defense or attack with mace (pepper spray or tear gas) using a hand-held device.
2. (informal) To spray a similar noxious chemical in defense or attack using an available hand-held device such as an aerosol spray can.

Concepts

macis

masse

massue

sceptre

noix de muscade

fleur de muscade

batte

club

crosse

gourdin

queue

maillet

fléau d'armes

masse d'arme

masse d’armes

masse d'armes

muscade

masse d’arme

muscadier

muscadier moix

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/meɪs/

Étymologie (Anglais)

From Middle English mace, borrowed from Old French mace, mache, from Vulgar Latin *mattia, *mattea, matia, (compare Italian mazza, Spanish maza), probably from Proto-West Germanic *mattjō (“cutting tool, hoe”).