Mail

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