Usually means: Ceremonial clubs, symbols of authority.
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  1. Maces, maces: Merriam-Webster
  2. maces: Collins English Dictionary
  3. Maces, maces: Vocabulary.com
  4. Mace's, Maces, maces: Wordnik
  5. maces: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. maces: Wiktionary
  7. maces: Dictionary.com
  8. Maces: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Maces: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Maces: Encyclopedia

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  1. Maces: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (MACE)

noun:  A heavy fighting club.
noun:  A ceremonial form of this weapon.
noun:  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.
noun:  An officer who carries a mace as a token of authority.
noun:  A knobbed mallet used by curriers to make leather supple when dressing it.
noun:  (archaic) A billiard cue.
verb:  To hit someone or something with a mace.
noun:  A spice obtained from the outer layer of the kernel of the fruit of the nutmeg.
noun:  Tear gas or pepper spray, especially for personal use.
verb:  To spray in defense or attack with mace (pepper spray or tear gas) using a hand-held device.
verb:  (informal) To spray a similar noxious chemical in defense or attack using an available hand-held device such as an aerosol spray can.
noun:  An old money of account in China equal to one tenth of a tael.
noun:  An old weight of 57.98 grains, approximately 3.8 grams.
noun:  (countable) A male given name, a name derived from the war instrument, a mace
noun:  (countable) A surname.
noun:  An English surname transferred from the given name.
noun:  A surname from Norman.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Walnut Township, Montgomery County, Indiana, United States.
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of mace (tear gas or pepper spray) [A heavy fighting club.]
noun:  (medicine) Initialism of major adverse cardiovascular event.
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