mail

A coat of armour. Also, a number of rings interwoven net-wise, and used for rubbing off the loose hemp from white cordage after it is made.

Mail
·noun Rent; tribute. II. Mail ·noun A bag; a wallet. III. Mail ·vt To arm with mail. IV. Mail ·no...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Mail-shell
·noun A <<Chiton>>. ...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Sea-mail
·noun A gull; the mew. ...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
black-mail
Formerly, money paid to men allied with robbers to be protected by them from being robbed.--Cowell. ...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
banded-mail
A kind of armour which consisted of alternate rows of leather or cotton and single chain-mail. ...

The Sailor's Word-Book
mail-shell
A name for the chiton. ...

The Sailor's Word-Book
Coat of mail
The rendering of a Hebrew word meaning "glittering" (1 Sam. 17:5, 38). The same word in the plural f...

Easton's Bible Dictionary
Mail, Coat of
"a corselet of scales," a cuirass formed of pieces of metal overlapping each other, like fish-scales...

Easton's Bible Dictionary
coat of mail
The chiton shell. ...

The Sailor's Word-Book