This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ...at the saddle-bow. where it was suspended by a thong which assed through the npger part of the handle; this l on was wound ronn the wrist to prevent its loss by t e force of a blow. It had many forms: asimp spiked club. ii pointed hammer. n England during the time of the Plantagonets the mace was used in battles and tournaments and was so orseded by the pistol in the time of Ellizabeth. he miice is still retained among the Turkish irregular cavalry. _ 3. Billiards: A heavy rod or cue, used in pushing ii ball along the table. (Erig.) H8.00d01118.lI.-Dl1l.l8.!l.!, s. Pfl.LANX. 1159-6-db'-nl-an (2). 0.. dz s. See def. A. As a_.: Pertaining to. or in any way counected wit the teaching of Macedonius; as. the Macedonian heresy. B. As substantive: Church Hist. (pl.): A sect which came into existence toward the end of the_Arian controversy taking its name from Maccdouius. who became 15atriarch of Constantinople in 341. He taught that the Hol Ghost was "subordinate to the Father and to the n unlike to them in substance, and a creature." Macedonius, who was a semi-Arian. was deposed by the Arians in 360; and his special tenets were condemned at the Council of Constantinople in 381 where thirty-six bishops were found to support t_hcrn. In that Council the clause defining the divinity of the Ho Ghost was added to the Nicene Creed. The Mace oniaus were called also Pneumatomachi. mi.9'--6ne, s. Eng. mac(e).'-cne. Chevm.: _(3wI_l@. A hydrocarbon present in the volatile oil or mace. lt boils at 160. and is distinguisihed from oil of turpentine by not forming a crystalline hydrate when mixed with alcohol and nitric acid. mac'-Gr (1), a. Eng. mace (1);-e'r. Scots Law: One of a number of oflicers attending the Supreme Courts in...