Maccabees

Webster's Condensed Dictionary- A Condensed Dictionary of the English Language · 1909 · p. 353

mak'ka-bez, n. pi. Two books of the Apocrypha, which record Jewish affairs in the time of the Maccabean princes. Maccaboy, mak'ka-boi, -co boy, n. Rose-flavored snuff. [Fr. a district in Martin i que, where made.]