mace
nounA ceremonial staff borne or displayed as the symbol of authority of a legislative body.
A macebearer.
A heavy medieval war club with a spiked or flanged metal head, used to crush armor.
A thin fleshy red covering that surrounds the kernel of the nutmeg, dried and used as a spice.
A spice consisting of the dried arillode (false aril) or covering of the seed of the nutmeg, Myristica fragrans, which is a fleshy net-like envelop somewhat resembling the husk of a filbert.
