Stuart's Daily Word Spot: Mace

Mace: noun - weaponcomprising a heavy staff or club, either completely of metal or with a metalhead, usually spiked; sceptre or staff of office carried before certainofficials, in particular the one that lies on a table in the House of Commonswhen the Speaker is in attendance: a symbol of the authority of the House;stick with a flat square head, used for propelling the ball in bagatelle or, atone time, billiards; a cooking spice obtained from the driedcovering of the nutmeg fruit seed; a brand of tear gas.
'Long Tallfellah bore a weapon of suchdestructive power that few dared confront him on the field; his mace hadcrushed many skulls during his decades of battling against the Dark Porker.'
'Once the military police had the protesterspressed into an area from which they could make no escape, they sprayed themliberally with Mace and beat them with batons as they then tried to flee thescene.'
Pic: On the road to Goredale Scar, North Yorkshire.