_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.

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