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ey; 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.

To figure or variegate. [Obs.] Spenser.

flesh, or the lowest coin, a opposed to "white rent", which paid in silver. To levy blackmail, to extort money by threats, as of injury to one's reputation.

One who extorts, or endeavors to extort, money, by black mailing.

The act or practice of extorting money by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, as injury to reputation.

A hood of other material than mail; esp. (Eccl.), a hood worn in church services, -- the amice, or the like.

An indented or zigzaged line of intrenchment.

To divest of coat of mail. Spenser.

An art or process of flooding transparent colored glaze over designs stamped or molded on earthenware or porcelain. Ure.

Wearing mail or armor; clad of armor. W. Browne.

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

See Limaille. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A gull; the mew.

A stuffed jacket worn under the mail, or (later) a jacket plated with mail. [Spelled also hacqueton.] [Obs.] Halliwell. Sir W. Scott.

The method of blackmailing by decoying a person into a compromising situation and extorting money by threats of exposure. [Cant]