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maille (n.) Also mail(e, male, meile.
[
OFOld French maille, maile, male.]
1.
(a) A small metal ring or plate used for making chain armor; (b) a mesh of such rings or a series of such plates overlapped, chain mail; double ~, mail thickly woven with no visible interstices; standard of ~, a collaret of mail; (c) mail armor; a piece of mail armor; ~ and plate, ~ or plates, plate and (or, ne) ~; under ~, in armor; (d) pl. mail armor.
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2.
Misc. senses: (a) med. a film growing over the eye; (b) the breast feathers of a hawk; (c) a hole, or mesh of a net.
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