Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: mace
IPA transcription: [m'eɪs]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: mace
    Meaning: a ceremonial staff carried as a symbol of office or authority
  • Synonyms: mace
    Meaning: spice made from the dried fleshy covering of the nutmeg seed
  • Synonyms: macebearer, mace, macer
    Meaning: an official who carries a mace of office
  • Synonyms: Mace, Chemical_Mace
    Meaning: (trademark) a liquid that temporarily disables a person; prepared as an aerosol and sprayed in the face, it irritates the eyes and causes dizziness and immobilization
Usage examples
  • Season with salt, pepper, mace and cayenne.
  • Towards that, as yet, I had only my iron mace.
  • Sprinkle with pepper, mace and chopped parsley.
  • Add an onion, four cloves, a blade of mace, a sliced carrot, and a bunch of sweet herbs.
  • When it boils, take off the scum, put in two or three onions, a blade of mace, a little salt and pepper.
  • Rub a small cleaned turbot with melted butter, sprinkle with minced parsley, powdered mace, and salt and pepper to season.
  • Cover and let brown a few minutes; then add 2 carrots and 1 onion sliced thin, some thyme and mace; pour over 1 cup of hot water.
  • If you wish for gravy for them, when you have taken them up, stir a little flour into the fat they were fried in; season it with salt, pepper, and mace.
  • Put them in a saucepan with a pint of stock, two small onions and one carrot chopped, a teaspoonful of minced parsley, salt, pepper, cayenne, and a little mace.
  • Stuff a large trout with seasoned crumbs, and cover it with Claret, adding mushrooms, parsley, chopped onion, thyme, a bay-leaf, pepper-corns, and mace to season.