Definition of mace

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Mace (n.) A knobbed mallet used by curriers in dressing leather to make it supple.

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Spice :: Spice (n.) A vegetable production of many kinds, fragrant or aromatic and pungent to the taste, as pepper, cinnamon, nutmeg, mace, allspice, ginger, cloves, etc., which are used in cookery and to flavor sauces, pickles, etc..
Coral Fish :: Coral fish () Any bright-colored fish of the genera Chaetodon, Pomacentrus, Apogon, and related genera, which live among reef corals..
Pharmacy :: Pharmacy (n.) The art or practice of preparing and preserving drugs, and of compounding and dispensing medicines according to prescriptions of physicians; the occupation of an apothecary or a pharmaceutical chemist..
Rot :: Rot (v. t.) To expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber; to ret..
Philippic :: Philippic (n.) Any one of the series of famous orations of Demosthenes, the Grecian orator, denouncing Philip, king of Macedon..
Grimace :: Grimace (v. i.) To make grimaces; to distort one's face; to make faces.
Macerater :: Macerater (n.) One who, or that which, macerates; an apparatus for converting paper or fibrous matter into pulp..
Spermaceti :: Spermaceti (n.) A white waxy substance obtained from cavities in the head of the sperm whale, and used making candles, oilments, cosmetics, etc. It consists essentially of ethereal salts of palmitic acid with ethal and other hydrocarbon bases. The substance of spermaceti after the removal of certain impurities is sometimes called cetin..
Reed-mace :: Reed-mace (n.) The cat-tail.
Pomacentroid :: Pomacentroid (a.) Pertaining to the Pomacentridae, a family of bright-colored tropical fishes having spiny opercula; -- often called coral fishes..
Thessalonian :: Thessalonian (a.) Of or pertaining to Thessalonica, a city of Macedonia..
Mace :: Mace (n.) A money of account in China equal to one tenth of a tael; also, a weight of 57.98 grains..
Stethograph :: Stethal (n.) One of the higher alcohols of the methane series, homologous with ethal, and found in small quantities as an ethereal salt of stearic acid in spermaceti..
Macerated :: Macerated (imp. & p. p.) of Macerat.
Pharmacist :: Pharmacist (n.) One skilled in pharmacy; a pharmaceutist; a druggist.
Hecdecane :: Hecdecane (n.) A white, semisolid, spermaceti-like hydrocarbon, C16H34, of the paraffin series, found dissolved as an important ingredient of kerosene, and so called because each molecule has sixteen atoms of carbon; -- called also hexadecane..
Diatom :: Diatom (n.) One of the Diatomaceae, a family of minute unicellular Algae having a siliceous covering of great delicacy, each individual multiplying by spontaneous division. By some authors diatoms are called Bacillariae, but this word is not in general use..
Menispermaceous :: Menispermaceous (a.) Pertaining to a natural order (Menispermace/) of climbing plants of which moonseed (Menispermum) is the type.
Mace :: Mace (n.) An officer who carries a mace as an emblem of authority.
Cetyl :: Cetyl (n.) A radical, C16H33, not yet isolated, but supposed to exist in a series of compounds homologous with the ethyl compounds, and derived from spermaceti..
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