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Filings of metal. [Obs.] "An ounce . . . of silver lymaille." Chaucer.

s); -- so called from a fancied resemblance of its flower spikes to the tuft of a lion's tail. L. Cardiaca is the common motherwort.

hite flowers crowded in a slender terminal spike, somewhat resembling in form a lizard's tail; whence the name. Gray.

An animal, particularly a log, having an uncut tail. Cf. Curtail. Dog.

A square sail bent upon a yard that hangs obliquely to the mast and is raised or lowered with the sail. Totten.

See Limaille. [Obs.] Chaucer.

y; especially, an English silver half-penny of the time of Henry V. [Obs.] [Written also maile, and maille.]

A chiton.

Admissible lawfully into the mail. [U.S.]

Protected by a coat of mail; clad in armor. Sir W. Scott.

Protected by an external coat, or covering, of scales or plates.

A farm. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

The principal sail in a ship or other vessel. [They] hoised up the mainsail to the wind. Acts xxvii. 40.

A long streaky cloud, spreading out like a horse's tail, and believed to indicate rain; a cirrus cloud. See Cloud. Mackerel sky and mare's-tails Make tall ships carry low sails. Old Rhyme.

Marvel. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Shot or bits of iron used sometimes in loading cannon.

One who serves a mitrailleuse.

A breech-loading machine gun consisting of a number of barrels fitted together, so arranged that the barrels can be fired simultaneously, or successively, and rapidly.

A short, round iron bar or lever used in naval gunnery. Totten.

A sail sometimes carried in light winds, above a skysail. R. H. Dana, Jr.