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   M A C  ACAO, an iland of China, in the province of Canton, fifty miles outh of Canton.

Macao, in ornithology. See.      M A C  MACE, the econd coat or covering of the kernel of the nutmeg, is a thin and membranaceous ubtance, of an oleaginous nature and a yellowih colour; being met with in flakes of an inch and more in length, which are divided into a multitude of ramifications. It is of an extremely fragrant, aromatic and agreeable flavour, and of a pleaant, but acrid and oleaginous tate.

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