·noun Rent; tribute.
II. Mail ·noun A bag; a wallet.
III. Mail ·vt To arm with mail.
IV. Mail ·noun A Spot.
V. Mail ·vt To Pinion.
VI. Mail ·noun Hence generally, armor, or any defensive covering.
VII. Mail ·noun A trunk, box, or bag, in which clothing, ·etc., may be carried.
VIII. Mail ·noun That which comes in the mail; letters, ·etc., received through the post office.
IX. Mail ·noun A small piece of money; especially, an English silver half-penny of the time of Henry V.
X. Mail ·noun A flexible fabric made of metal rings interlinked. It was used especially for defensive armor.
XI. Mail ·noun A contrivance of interlinked rings, for rubbing off the loose hemp on lines and white cordage.
XII. Mail ·noun Any hard protective covering of an animal, as the scales and plates of reptiles, shell of a lobster, ·etc.
XIII. Mail ·vt 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.
XIV. Mail ·noun 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.