Mail \Mail\, v. t.

1. To arm with mail.

2. To pinion. [Obs.]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Mail \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. ? hide, skin.]

1. A bag; a wallet. [Obs.]

--Chaucer.

2. 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.

There is a mail come in to-day, with letters dated Hague. --Tatler.

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

4. A trunk, box, or bag, in which clothing, etc., may be carried. [Obs.]

--Sir W. Scott.

Mail bag, a bag in which mailed matter is conveyed under public authority.

Mail boat, a boat that carries the mail.

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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Mail \Mail\, n. A spot. [Obs.]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Mail \Mail\, n. [F. maille, OF. also maaille, LL. medalia. See Medal.]

1. A small piece of money; especially, an English silver half-penny of the time of Henry V. [Obs.]

[Written also maile, and maille.]

2. Rent; tribute. [Obs., except in certain compounds and phrases, as blackmail, mails and duties, etc.]

Mail and duties (Scots Law), the rents of an estate, in whatever form paid.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Mail \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.]

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

Chain mail, Coat of mail. See under Chain, and Coat.

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

3. (Naut.) A contrivance of interlinked rings, for rubbing off the loose hemp on lines and white cordage.

4. (Zo["o]l.) Any hard protective covering of an animal, as the scales and plates of reptiles, shell of a lobster, etc.

We . . . strip the lobster of his scarlet mail. --Gay.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Mail \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.]

Note: 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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)