mail net (malnet)

A form of loom-made net. It is a combination in the same fabric of common mail-sack (māl's ak), n. See mail - bag. mail-shell (mal's hel), n. A kind of mollusk: same as chiton, 2 ( b ). mail-stage (mal'stāj), n. A mail-coach. [U.S.] mail-train (māl'trān), n. A railroad-train by which mails are carried. maim (mām), v. t. [Also, obs. or dial., main ; may he men , mainen, may- nen, mehaigner , mahaigner = Pr. maganhar = It. magagnare (ML. mahemiare , mahanare , ma- hennare, mehaignare ), maim; cf. Bret. mach aña , mutilate, machan , mutilation, prob. from the OF.; ulterior origin uncertain.] To disable by wounding or mutilation; deprive of, or of the use of, a nece ary constituent part, as of the body, or, figuratively, of anything; in old law , to deprive of the use of a limb, so as to render a person le able to defend himself in fighting, or to annoy his adversary; mutilate. See mayhem . The pore and the maymot for to clothe and fede. Chron. Vilodun , p. 31. ( Hall i well .) You maim'd the jurisdiction of all bishops. Shak., Hen. VIII., iii. 2. 312. By the ancient law of England, he that maimed any man, whereby he lost any part of his body, was sentenced to lose the like part. Black stone , Com., IV. xv. =Syn. Mangle , etc. See mutilate .