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"word": "mace head"
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"ref": "1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 51",
"text": "The Mace is an ancient weapon, formerly much used by cavalry of all nations, and likewise by ecclesiastics, who in consequence of their tenures, frequently took the field, but were by a canon of the church forbidden to wield the sword.",
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"roman": "dabbūs",
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"word": "վարզ"
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"word": "күҫәк"
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"feminine"
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"sense": "weapon",
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"feminine"
],
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],
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],
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],
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"code": "id",
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],
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],
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],
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],
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{
"code": "ne",
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},
{
"code": "fa",
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{
"code": "pl",
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],
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"feminine"
],
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"sense": "weapon",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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"neuter"
],
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"tags": [
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{
"code": "sa",
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"feminine"
],
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"code": "sh",
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"masculine"
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"code": "sh",
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"code": "sh",
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],
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{
"code": "es",
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"feminine"
],
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{
"code": "su",
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"sense": "weapon",
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{
"code": "tg",
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"roman": "gurz",
"sense": "weapon",
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"sense": "weapon",
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"code": "uk",
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"roman": "pálycja",
"sense": "weapon",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "па́лиця"
},
{
"code": "uk",
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"roman": "bulavá",
"sense": "weapon",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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"code": "uz",
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"masculine"
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "žezǎl",
"sense": "ceremonial form of this weapon",
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],
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{
"code": "ca",
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"sense": "ceremonial form of this weapon",
"tags": [
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"code": "cs",
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"code": "fi",
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{
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "ceremonial form of this weapon",
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "ceremonial form of this weapon",
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{
"code": "fr",
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"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "masse"
},
{
"code": "de",
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],
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{
"code": "hu",
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},
{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "ceremonial form of this weapon",
"word": "gada"
},
{
"code": "it",
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"tags": [
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],
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},
{
"code": "ja",
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{
"code": "la",
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],
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{
"code": "mk",
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],
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{
"code": "mk",
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"roman": "žezlo",
"sense": "ceremonial form of this weapon",
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],
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},
{
"code": "ms",
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{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "ceremonial form of this weapon",
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],
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},
{
"code": "pt",
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"Hong Kong English",
"Requests for audio pronunciation in English entries",
"Requests for pronunciation in English entries",
"Rhymes:English/eɪs",
"Rhymes:English/eɪs/1 syllable",
"en:Magnoliids",
"en:Spices",
"en:Weapons"
],
"etymology_number": 4,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "jv",
"3": ""
},
"expansion": "Javanese [Term?]",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ms",
"3": ""
},
"expansion": "Malay [Term?]",
"name": "bor"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from Javanese [Term?] and Malay [Term?], meaning \"a bean\".",
"forms": [
{
"form": "maces",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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"args": {},
"expansion": "mace (plural maces)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"An old money of account in China equal to one tenth of a tael."
],
"links": [
[
"money of account",
"money of account"
],
[
"China",
"China"
],
[
"tael",
"tael"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1883, Samuel Wells Williams, The Middle Kingdom: A Survey of the Geography, Government, Education, Social Life, Arts, Religion, &c., of the Chinese Empire and Its Inhabitants",
"text": "The decimals of the tael, called mace, candareen, and cash (tsien, fǎn, and li) , are employed in reckoning bullion.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"An old weight of 57.98 grains, approximately 3.8 grams."
],
"links": [
[
"weight",
"weight"
],
[
"grain",
"grain"
],
[
"gram",
"gram"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "chee"
},
{
"word": "tsien"
}
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/meɪs/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-eɪs"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-mace.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/39/En-us-mace.ogg/En-us-mace.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/39/En-us-mace.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Mace"
],
"word": "mace"
}
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