Definition of mail

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Mail (n.) Any hard protective covering of an animal, as the scales and plates of reptiles, shell of a lobster, etc..

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Packet :: Packet (n.) Originally, a vessel employed by government to convey dispatches or mails; hence, a vessel employed in conveying dispatches, mails, passengers, and goods, and having fixed days of sailing; a mail boat..
Baresark :: Baresark (n.) A Berserker, or Norse warrior who fought without armor, or shirt of mail. Hence, adverbially: Without shirt of mail or armor..
Mail :: Mail (n.) Any hard protective covering of an animal, as the scales and plates of reptiles, shell of a lobster, etc..
Hauberk :: Hauberk (v. t.) A coat of mail; especially, the long coat of mail of the European Middle Ages, as contrasted with the habergeon, which is shorter and sometimes sleeveless. By old writers it is often used synonymously with habergeon. See Habergeon..
Blackmail :: Blackmail (n.) A certain rate of money, corn, cattle, or other thing, anciently paid, in the north of England and south of Scotland, to certain men who were allied to robbers, or moss troopers, to be by them protected from pillage..
Lepidoganoid :: Lepidoganoid (n.) Any one of a division (Lepidoganoidei) of ganoid fishes, including those that have scales forming a coat of mail. Also used adjectively..
Blackmail :: Blackmail (n.) Black rent, or rent paid in corn, flesh, or the lowest coin, a opposed to white rent, which paid in silver..
Pouch :: Pouch (n.) A small bag; usually, a leathern bag; as, a pouch for money; a shot pouch; a mail pouch, etc..
Mail :: Mail (n.) Hence generally, armor, or any defensive covering..
Mail :: Mail (v. t.) 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..
Striker :: Strike (n.) The extortion of money, or the attempt to extort money, by threat of injury; blackmailing..
Blackmailer :: Blackmailer (n.) One who extorts, or endeavors to extort, money, by black mailing..
Mailed :: Mailed (a.) Protected by an external coat, or covering, of scales or plates..
Loricate :: Loricate (v.) Covered with a shell or exterior made of plates somewhat like a coat of mail, as in the armadillo..
Chlamyphore :: Chlamyphore (n.) A small South American edentate (Chlamyphorus truncatus, and C. retusus) allied to the armadillo. It is covered with a leathery shell or coat of mail, like a cloak, attached along the spine..
Mailed :: Mailed (a.) Spotted; speckled.
Postal :: Postal (a.) Belonging to the post office or mail service; as, postal arrangements; postal authorities..
Base :: Base (n.) A kind of skirt ( often of velvet or brocade, but sometimes of mailed armor) which hung from the middle to about the knees, or lower..
Acton :: Acton (n.) A stuffed jacket worn under the mail, or (later) a jacket plated with mail..
Mailclad :: Mailclad (a.) Protected by a coat of mail; clad in armor.
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