Usually means: Spice made from nutmeg husk.
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We found 52 dictionaries that define the word mace:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. mace: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Mace, mace: Merriam-Webster
  3. Mace, mace, mace: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. Mace, mace, mace: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. mace: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Mace, mace: Vocabulary.com
  7. Mace, mace: Wordnik
  8. Mace, mace: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Mace, mace: Wiktionary
  10. mace: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. Mace, mace: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. mace: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Mace, mace: Dictionary.com
  14. Mace (3), mace (1), mace (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. mace: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. MACE, Mace (G.I. Joe), Mace (bludgeon), Mace (club), Mace (construction company), Mace (disambiguation), Mace (shop), Mace (spice), Mace (spray), Mace (store), Mace (surname), Mace (unit), Mace (weapon), Mace: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Mace: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. mace: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. mace: Rhymezone
  20. Mace: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. mace: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. MACE: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. Mace: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. mace: FreeDictionary.org
  25. mace: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. Mace: TheFreeDictionary.com
  27. mace: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. An Illustrated Dictionary of Jewelry (No longer online)
  2. Epicurus.com Food Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Encyclopedia of Spices (No longer online)
  4. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. C-SPAN Congressional Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. MACE: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Mace (botany and cooking), Mace (disambiguation), Mace (measurement), Mace (spice), mace: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Mace: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Mace (botany and cooking), Mace (disambiguation), Mace (spice), mace: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Mace: Bar-Nones Dictionary of Drinking
  2. baby names list (No longer online)
  3. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Arms and Armour (No longer online)
  5. MACE: Acronym Finder
  6. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Mace: Catholic Encyclopedia

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mace, mace, Mace: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BBC Food Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A heavy fighting club.
noun:  A ceremonial form of this weapon.
noun:  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.
noun:  An officer who carries a mace as a token of authority.
noun:  A knobbed mallet used by curriers to make leather supple when dressing it.
noun:  (archaic) A billiard cue.
verb:  To hit someone or something with a mace.
noun:  A spice obtained from the outer layer of the kernel of the fruit of the nutmeg.
noun:  Tear gas or pepper spray, especially for personal use.
verb:  To spray in defense or attack with mace (pepper spray or tear gas) using a hand-held device.
verb:  (informal) To spray a similar noxious chemical in defense or attack using an available hand-held device such as an aerosol spray can.
noun:  An old money of account in China equal to one tenth of a tael.
noun:  An old weight of 57.98 grains, approximately 3.8 grams.
noun:  (countable) A male given name, a name derived from the war instrument, a mace
noun:  (countable) A surname.
noun:  An English surname transferred from the given name.
noun:  A surname from Norman.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Walnut Township, Montgomery County, Indiana, United States.
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of mace (tear gas or pepper spray) [A heavy fighting club.]
noun:  (medicine) Initialism of major adverse cardiovascular event.

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