mace

noun11

1. •
   Tear gas or pepper spray, especially for personal use.
2. •
   A heavy fighting club.
3. •
   A ceremonial form of this weapon.

   • 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 — 1599
4. •
   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.
5. •
   A spice obtained from the outer layer of the kernel of the fruit of the nutmeg.
6. •
   An officer who carries a mace as a token of authority.
7. •
   An old money of account in China equal to one tenth of a tael.
8. •
   An old weight of 57.98 grains, approximately 3.8 grams.

   • The decimals of the tael, called mace, candareen, and cash (tsien, fǎn, and li) , are employed in reckoning bullion. — 1883
9. •
   A knobbed mallet used by curriers to make leather supple when dressing it.

   • In the foreground one man uses the "head knife” to work over the skin on the beam, while another softens a skin with the currier's mace. — 1967
10. •
    A flail.
11. •
    (no longer used) A billiard cue.

verb3

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.

   • When Reynaldo and Willie had burst into Larkey's drug store to confront him, the old man had maced Willie square in the eyes with an aerosol can of spermicidal birth-control foam. — 1989
3. •
   To hit someone or something with a mace.

noun1

1. •
   Initialism of major adverse cardiovascular event.