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_Acts Sed._
Hence _house-mail_, _stable-mail_, _horse-mail_, _gra.s.s-mail_, S.
A. S. _male_, Isl. _mala_, Ir. _mal_, tributum.
4. _To pay the mail_, to atone for a crime by suffering, S.
_Hogg._
~Black-mail~, _s._ A tax paid by heritors or tenants, for the security of their property, to those freebooters who were wont to make inroads on estates.
_Acts Ja. VI._
Germ. _blackmal_, id. from Alem. _blak-en_, praedari.
~Mailer~, ~Maillar~, _s._
1. A farmer.
_Henrysone._
2. One who has a very small piece of ground, S.
_Statist. Acc._
~Mail-free~, _adj._ Without paying rent, S.
_Rutherford._
~Mail-garden~, _s._ A garden, the products of which are raised for sale, S.
~Mailin~, ~Mailing~, ~Maling~, _s._
1. A farm, S. from _mail_, as being rented.
_Maitland P._
2. The term during which a tenant possesses a farm.
_Baron Courts._
~Mail-man~, _s._ A farmer.
_Baron Courts._
~Mail-payer~, _s._ The same, S. B.
_Ross._
_To_ ~Mail~, ~Maill~, _v. a._ To rent.
_Acts Ja. I._
MAILYIE, _s._
1. In pl., the plates or links of which a coat of mail is composed.
Teut. _maelie_, orbiculus.
_Douglas._
2. Network.
_Henrysone._
_To_ MAIN, _v. a._ To bemoan, S.
V. ~Mene~, _v._
~Main~, ~Mayne~, ~Mane~, _s._ Moan, S.
_Wallace._
MAYNDIT.
V. ~Wayndit~.
_Wallace._
MAYNE, MANE, _s._
1. Strength of body.
_Wallace._
2. Courage, valour.
_Douglas._
A. S. _maegen_, Isl. _magn_, magnitudo virium.
MAINS, MAINES, _s._ The farm attached to a mansion-house, S.
