Definition of Mail

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Definition of Mail

Mail

A spot.

A small piece of money; especially, an English silver half-penny of the time of Henry V.

Rent; tribute.

A flexible fabric made of metal rings interlinked. It was used especially for defensive armor.

Hence generally, armor, or any defensive covering.

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.

To arm with mail.

To pinion.

A bag; a wallet.

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.

That which comes in the mail; letters, etc., received through the post office.

A trunk, box, or bag, in which clothing, etc., may be carried.

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.

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Mail Quotations

Liberal soccer moms are precisely as likely to receive anthrax in the mail as to develop a capacity for linear thinking.
Ann Coulter

Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas.
Johnny Carson

I get mail; therefore I am.
Scott Adams

He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In the lexicon of the political class, the word "sacrifice" means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it.
George Will

I mean I appreciate fan mail and that the people like what I am doing but I can't answer it. If I would answer 25 letters a day I would be just a guy answering mail and not an artist anymore.
Henry Rollins

The abortion cases produced an enormous amount of mail to my chambers, vastly more than to the other chambers, I am sure. I sometimes thought there wasn't a woman in the United States who didn't write me a letter on one side or the other of that issue.
Sandra Day O'Connor

When I took command in Vietnam, I gave great emphasis to food and medical care - and to the mail.
William Westmoreland

I'm so happy to have been a part of that process and I would go straight back into the desert in a ton of chain mail for Ridley any day of the week. He's an amazing director and I can't wait to see the long version.
Orlando Bloom

My mother answers all my fan mail.
Patti Smith

Mail Translations

mail in Dutch is post, posterijen
mail in Finnish is posti
mail in French is postal
mail in German is Post, Post, versenden
mail in Italian is spedire, posta, a posta corrente
mail in Norwegian is post
mail in Portuguese is correio
mail in Spanish is enviar por correo, enviar correspondencia, correo
mail in Swedish is post

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