mace

A 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.

A small gold coin of Atchin in Sumatra, weighing 9 grains, and worth about 26 cents.

The tenth part of a Chinese tael or ounce: as a money of account it is equal to 58 grains of pure silver. See tael, liang, and candareen.

To swindle.

Swindling; a swindler; a swindling loan-office.

A weapon for striking, consisting of a heavy head, commonly of metal, with a handle or staff, usually of such length as to be conveniently wielded with one hand; by extension, any similar weapon.