Sceptre

1. n. Hence, royal or imperial power or authority; sovereignty; as, to assume the scepter.
2. n. A staff or baton borne by a sovereign, as a ceremonial badge or emblem of authority; a royal mace.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.