Mail: Definition and part of speech

Mail

  1. n. A trunk, box, or bag, in which clothing, etc., may be carried.
  2. n. A spot.
  3. n. A small piece of money; especially, an English silver half-penny of the time of Henry V.
  4. n. Rent; tribute.
  5. n. A flexible fabric made of metal rings interlinked. It was used especially for defensive armor.
  6. n. Hence generally, armor, or any defensive covering.
  7. n. A contrivance of interlinked rings, for rubbing off the loose hemp on lines and white cordage.
  8. n. Any hard protective covering of an animal, as the scales and plates of reptiles, shell of a lobster, etc.
  9. v. t. To arm with mail.
  10. v. t. To pinion.
  11. 1n. 1 A trunk, box, or bag, in which clothing, etc., may be carried.
  12. 1n. 1 A spot.

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.

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