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yet common in Africa and elsewhere. In the times of the Plantagenets the mace was used in battles and tournaments, and was superseded by the pistol in the time of Elizabeth. The mace is still retained among the Turkish cavalry. 2. (Leather.) A currier's mallet with a knobbed face, made by the insertion of pins with egg-shaped heads. It is used in leather-dressing to soften and supple the tanned hides, and enable them to absorb the oil, etc. It is analogous to the fulling-hammer. Mac′er-ate. To wear away by steeping. To saturate a substance, — fiber for paper, for instance, — so as to distend the fibers. Macer-a′tion. The process of softening and separating the parts by steeping. A solution is the diffusion of the particles of a solid in a liquid without change of its nature. An infusion is a solution obtained by steeping at a moderate temperature. A decoction is a solution obtained by boiling. A steep is a solution obtained by maceration or soaki