mace
mace 英 [meɪs] 美 [mes]
n. 狼牙棒；权杖
名词复数:maces
- You might see the leader of a royal procession carrying a mace, or ceremonial staff. The word mace can also refer to two very different weapons: a long stick with spikes on the end or a chemical irritant that you spray in someone's eyes. Ouch!
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- n. 狼牙棒；权杖
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1. It’s like a little mace with little spikes and hooks and it fits into their forehead.
这就像一个小尖峰狼牙棒和小钩，它与他们的额头是一体的。
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2. On the other side from the sandals [in the museum] is their owner, dressed in a royal head-dress with a mace in one hand and a whip in the other.
在这标签粘在凉鞋（陈列在博物馆里）的背面，刻画了凉鞋的主人，戴着皇家头饰，一手持着狼牙棒，一手握着长鞭。
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3. Baton of clay painted in red stripes, with imitation mace-head of clay.
泥塑棍棒，表面涂有红色条纹，顶端是仿狼牙棒头。
- Mace (n.3) chemical spray originally used in riot control, 1966, technically Chemical Mace, a proprietary name (General Ordnance Equipment Corp, Pittsburgh, Pa.), probably so called for its use as a weapon, in reference to mace (n.1). The verb is first attested 1968. Related: Maced; macing.
- mace (n.1) "heavy metal weapon, often with a spiked head," late 13c., from Old French mace "a club, scepter" (Modern French masse), from Vulgar Latin *mattea (source also of Italian mazza, Spanish maza "mace"), from Latin mateola (in Late Latin also matteola) "a kind of mallet." The Latin word perhaps is cognate with Sanskrit matyam "harrow, club," Old Church Slavonic motyka "mattock," Old High German medela "plow" [Klein]. As a symbol of authority or office from mid-15c.
- mace (n.2) "spice made from dry outer husk of nutmeg," late 14c., from Old French macis (in English taken as a plural and stripped of its -s), of uncertain origin, sometimes said to be a scribal error for Latin macir, the name of a red spicy bark from India, but OED finds this etymology unlikely.
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