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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Mace, n.² Also: maice, meac, mes(s, mice. [e.m.E. and late ME. mace, altered f. macis Macis n., this being taken as a plur.] Mace. — 16.. Soc. Ant. XI. 194.
With ȝour meat eat good store of spices, as cloves, ginger, mace and pepper 1663–6 Household Bks. Archb. Sharp 45 b.
For nuttmug lymon maice 1684 Oliphants 286.
For wine and suger and mes 1695 Scots Mag. (April 1890) 384.
2 drop of mice, 2s. 6d. 1696 Thanes of Cawdor 388.
Two ounce of sinimon, ane ounce of mess 1702 Old Ross-shire I. 205.
An unce meac