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Mail [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A coat of steel net-work, formerly worn for defending the body against swords, poniards, etc. The mail was of two sorts, chain and plate mail; the former consisting of iron rings, each having four others inserted into it; the latter consisting of a number of small lamins of metal, laid over one another like the scales of a fish, and sewed down to a strong linen or leathern jacket.

2. Armor; that which defends the body.

3. We strip the lobster of his scarlet mail

4. We read also of shirts of mail and gloves of mail

5. In ships, a square machine composed of rings interwoven, like net-work, used for rubbing off the loose hemp on lines and white cordage.

6. A rent. Also, a spot.

7. A bag for the conveyance of letters and papers, particularly letters conveyed from one post office to another, under public authority.

Mail [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To put on a coat of mail or armor; to arm defensively.

2. To inclose in a wrapper and direct to a post office. We say, letters were mailed for Philadelphia.

Mail [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A spot.

2. A small piece of money; especially, an English silver half-penny of the time of Henry V.

3. Rent; tribute.

4. A flexible fabric made of metal rings interlinked. It was used especially for defensive armor.

5. Hence generally, armor, or any defensive covering.

6. A contrivance of interlinked rings, for rubbing off the loose hemp on lines and white cordage.

7. Any hard protective covering of an animal, as the scales and plates of reptiles, shell of a lobster, etc.

8. A bag; a wallet.

9. The bag or bags with the letters, papers, papers, or other matter contained therein, conveyed under public authority from one post office to another; the whole system of appliances used by government in the conveyance and delivery of mail matter.

10. That which comes in the mail; letters, etc., received through the post office.

11. A trunk, box, or bag, in which clothing, etc., may be carried.

Mail [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To arm with mail.

2. To pinion.

3. To deliver into the custody of the postoffice officials, or place in a government letter box, for transmission by mail; to post; as, to mail a letter.

Mail-coach [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A coach that conveys the public mails.

Mail-shell [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A chiton.

Mailable [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Admissible lawfully into the mail.

Mailclad [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Protected by a coat of mail; clad in armor.

Mailed [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Spotted; speckled.

Mailed [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Covered with a mail or with armor; inclosed and directed, as letters in a bundle.