Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A trademark for an aerosol used to immobilize an attacker temporarily. This trademark often occurs in print as a verb and noun.
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- proper noun A brand of
tear gas .
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Examples
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Hall to Palace Yard, I went, and with my two parcels, one weighting each arm, walked into this old place along a line of purple-dusted busts; I deposited my boxes on a table beside a massive brass thing lying there, which, I suppose, must be what they called the Mace; and I sat to hear.
The Purple Cloud 1906
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"At first I thought it was about being really tired," says Massingill, 36, whose son, Mace, is now 7 months old.
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A legend spreads as Mace is able to have some success against an evil sorceror's summoning of the Vampyre Kings and other forces.
Archive 2007-01-01 Blue Tyson 2007
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While Mace is the point of the story, would it have really been that bad for either party to find a different parking place?
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The Mace is kept under the Table until the new Speaker is elected.
Summoned to the Bar 1955
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“Does either of you know of a tavern called the Mace & Cells?”
The Blackstone Key Rose Melikan 2008
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“Does either of you know of a tavern called the Mace & Cells?”
The Blackstone Key Rose Melikan 2008
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“Does either of you know of a tavern called the Mace & Cells?”
The Blackstone Key Rose Melikan 2008
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Members may not speak in the well of the chamber, and to demonstrate in front of the Mace is a parliamentary sacrilege.
Betty Bothroyd The Autobiography Bothroyd, Betty 1988
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Street hawkers, in Autumn, offer as Bulrushes the tall, round spikes of the Great Reed Mace, which is not a true Rush.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
abigail commented on the word Mace
Most "Mace" sold today by Mace Security International uses pepper spray rather than tear gas, as CN gas is illegal in many countries.
March 31, 2011