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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Something sent by mail.
  • noun A batch of mail dispatched at one time by a sender.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A piece of land for which rent or feu-duty is paid; a farm.
  • noun Linked mail in general.
  • noun The conventional device adopted, as in early monuments of art, to give the idea of a garment of mail.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act or process of sending materials through the mail.
  • noun A quantity of mail, such as letters, magazines, advertising brochures, etc., sent at one time by one person or organization.
  • noun Scot. A farm.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun An act of sending mail.
  • verb Present participle of mail.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun mail sent by a sender at one time
  • noun the transmission of a letter

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