mail

A bag or wallet.

What, loo, man, see here of dyce a bale; / A brydelynge caste for that is in thy male!

Open the Males, yet guard the treaſure ſure. Lay out our golden wedges to the view, That their reflexions may amaze the Perſeans.

A bag containing letters to be delivered by post.

The (physical) material conveyed by the postal service.

Meronym: mailpiece

Don't forget to pick up the mail on your way.

The (physical) material conveyed by the postal service.

It should be in your mail today, unless the post office lost it!

A stagecoach, train or ship that delivers such post.

All trains stop at all stations, with the exception of a few "local" stations near Mombasa and an odd flag stop or two usually missed by the mails.

On the morning after the one-day strike, October 4, one of the Type 4s on crew-training, No. D169, was appropriated to head the 3 a.m. mail to Hull, as no steam locomotive had been lit up and the usual Hull Type 3 was not available; [...].

To send (a letter, parcel, etc.) through the mail.

To send by electronic mail.

Please mail me the spreadsheet by the end of the day.

There has been a crackdown on non-ARPA use of a local ARPA gateway, so I am reluctant to attempt to mail the file to ARPA sites.

To contact (a person) by electronic mail.

I need to mail my tutor about the deadline.

I was horrified but my data was OK. Then, it saw it open my e-mail package and start to mail my friends. I turned the power off.

Armour consisting of metal rings linked together.

The knight is laid in his mail, only the hands and face being bare.

"That's funny looking mail, Sire," said Eustace. "Aye, lad," said Tirian. "No Narnian dwarf smithied that. […]

Armour consisting of small plates linked together.

A contrivance of interlinked rings, for rubbing off the loose hemp on lines and white cordage.

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

We […] strip the lobster of his scarlet mail.

There beryl, pearl, and opal pale, / And metal wrought like fishes' mail, / Buckler and corslet, axe and sword, / And shining spears were laid in hoard.

A spot on a bird's feather; by extension, a spotted feather.

[T]he moorish-fly: made with the body of duskish wool; and the wings made of the blackish mail of the drake.