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Mace and Maul Definitions

Mace

A ceremonial staff borne or displayed as the symbol of authority of a legislative body.

Maul

A heavy, long-handled hammer used especially to drive stakes, piles, or wedges.

Mace

A macebearer.

Maul

A heavy hammer having a wedge-shaped head and used for splitting logs.

Mace

A heavy medieval war club with a spiked or flanged metal head, used to crush armor.
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Maul

A play in rugby in which a mass of players gathers around a ball carrier being tackled and attempts to gain possession of the ball when it is released.

Mace

A thin fleshy red covering that surrounds the kernel of the nutmeg, dried and used as a spice.

Maul

The mass of players during such a play.

Mace

A heavy fighting club.

Maul

To injure or mutilate, as by scratching or beating
Stories of hikers mauled by wild animals.
A boxer who mauled his opponent.
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Mace

A ceremonial form of this weapon.

Maul

A heavy long-handled hammer, used for splitting logs by driving a wedge into them, or in combat.

Mace

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.

Maul

(rugby) A situation where the player carrying the ball, who must be on his feet, is held by one or more opponents, and one or more of the ball carrier's team mates bind onto the ball carrier.

Mace

An officer who carries a mace as a token of authority.

Maul

To handle someone or something in a rough way.

Mace

A knobbed mallet used by curriers make leather supple when dressing it.

Maul

To savage; to cause serious physical wounds usually used of an animal.
The bear mauled him in a terrible way.

Mace

(archaic) A billiard cue.

Maul

(figuratively) To criticise harshly.
The latest film by the Cohen brothers was mauled by the press, and was a box-office flop to boot.

Mace

An old money of account in China equal to one tenth of a tael.

Maul

(transitive) To beat with a maul.

Mace

An old weight of 57.98 grains.

Maul

A heavy wooden hammer or beetle.

Mace

A spice obtained from the outer layer of the kernel of the fruit of the nutmeg.

Maul

To beat and bruise with a heavy stick or cudgel; to wound in a coarse manner.
Meek modern faith to murder, hack, and maul.

Mace

Tear gas or pepper spray, especially for personal use.

Maul

To injure greatly; to do much harm to.
It mauls not only the person misrepreseted, but him also to whom he is misrepresented.

Mace

To hit someone or something with a mace.

Maul

A heavy long-handled hammer used to drive stakes or wedges

Mace

To spray in defense or attack with mace (pepper spray or tear gas) using a hand-held device.

Maul

Split (wood) with a maul and wedges

Mace

(informal) To spray a similar noxious chemical in defense or attack using an available hand-held device such as an aerosol spray can.

Maul

Injure badly by beating

Mace

A money of account in China equal to one tenth of a tael; also, a weight of 57.98 grains.

Mace

A kind of spice; the aril which partly covers nutmegs. See Nutmeg.

Mace

A heavy staff or club of metal; a spiked club; - used as weapon in war before the general use of firearms, especially in the Middle Ages, for breaking metal armor.
Death with his mace petrific . . . smote.

Mace

A staff borne by, or carried before, a magistrate as an ensign of his authority.

Mace

An officer who carries a mace as an emblem of authority; a macebearer.

Mace

A knobbed mallet used by curriers in dressing leather to make it supple.

Mace

A rod for playing billiards, having one end suited to resting on the table and pushed with one hand.

Mace

A chemical preparation containing tear gas in a solvent, packaged in the form of a spray, and used to temporarily incapacitate people, such as rioters or criminals, by causing intense eye and skin irritation; also called chemical mace. It is designed to be a non-lethal weapon for defending against violent people.

Mace

(trademark) a liquid that temporarily disables a person; prepared as an aerosol and sprayed in the face, it irritates the eyes and causes dizziness and immobilization

Mace

An official who carries a mace of office

Mace

Spice made from the dried fleshy covering of the nutmeg seed

Mace

A ceremonial staff carried as a symbol of office or authority

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