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   Mail , n. A spot. [Obs.]
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   Mail, n. [F. maille, OF. also maaille, LL. medalia. See Medal.]
   A small piece of money; especially, an English silver half-penny of the time of Henry V. [Obs.] [Written also maile, and maille.]
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   Rent; tribute. [Obs., except in certain compounds and phrases, as blackmail, mails and duties, etc.]
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   Mail and duties (Scots Law), the rents of an estate, in whatever form paid.
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   Mail , n. [OE. maile, maille, F. maille a ring of mail, mesh, network, a coat of mail, fr. L. macula spot, a mesh of a net. Cf. Macle, Macula, Mascle.]
   A flexible fabric made of metal rings interlinked. It was used especially for defensive armor.
   Chaucer.
   
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   Chain mail, Coat of mail. See under Chain, and Coat.
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   Hence generally, armor, or any defensive covering.
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   (Naut.) A contrivance of interlinked rings, for rubbing off the loose hemp on lines and white cordage.
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   (Zool.) Any hard protective covering of an animal, as the scales and plates of reptiles, shell of a lobster, etc.
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   We . . . strip the lobster of his scarlet mail.
   Gay.
   
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   Mail, v. t.
   To arm with mail.
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   To pinion. [Obs.]
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   Mail , n. [OE. male bag, OF. male, F. malle bag, trunk, mail, OHG. malaha, malha, wallet; akin to D. maal, male; cf. Gael. & Ir. mala, Gr. μολγός hide, skin.]
   A bag; a wallet. [Obs.]
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   The bag or bags with the letters, 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.
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   There is a mail come in to-day, with letters dated Hague.
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   That which comes in the mail; letters, etc., received through the post office.
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   A trunk, box, or bag, in which clothing, etc., may be carried. [Obs.]
   Sir W. Scott.
   
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   Mail catcher, an iron rod, or other contrivance, attached to a railroad car for catching a mail bag while the train is in motion. -- Mail guard, an officer whose duty it is to guard the public mails. [Eng.] -- Mail train, a railroad train carrying the mail.
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   Mail, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mailed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Mailing.] 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. [U. S.]
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   ☞ In the United States to mail and to post are both in common use; as, to mail or post a letter. In England post is the commoner usage.
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