maildæ, maiadæ

pl. [Mod. Lat., . mai (a); Lat. fem. pl. adj. suff. -ida, -adœ.] Zool.: Sea-spiders. Short-tailed Crustaceans of the section Oxyrhynchi of Milne-Edwards. The carapace is much longer than it is wide, and generally spiny; the first pair of feet in some males much longer than the second pair, and twice that of the carapace. māik, s. [MAKE (2), 8.] A companion, an equal, a mate. (Scotch.) mail (1), *maille, *mayle, *male, (1), *maile, s . [Fr. maille a mesh of a net, mail, from Lat. macula =a spot, a mesh of a net, a net; Ital. maglia .] I. Literally and Technically : 1. Armor : A flexible armor of rings or scales, covering the body, or body and limbs, according to its extent. Chain-mail consisted of steel or iron rings interlacing each other; of this sort were the shirts of mail. Plate-mail consisted of plates of steel or bra overlapping and riveted together. "To have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery." Shakesp.: Troilus and Cre ida , iii. 3. 2. Naut .: A series of interwoven rings, like mail armor or net-work, fastened on some stout substance, as canvas, used for rubbing off the loose fibers on cordage. 3. Weaving : One of the small bra eyes through which the end or worsted yarn pa es in a Bru els carpet-loom, and by which it is lifted in order to form the loop which distinguishes the surface of that variety of carpet. *II. Fig.: Any defensive covering or protection. "We strip the lobster of his scarlet mail."-Gay. pine, pit, sire, sir, marine; gō, pot, IMG:content-0833.png:[blocks in formation] Fabric: A form of loom-made net, which is a combination of common gauze and whip-net in the same fabric. The whole is a succe ion of right angled triangles, of which the woof forms the basis, the gauze part the perpendiculars, and the whip part the hypothenuse. The gauze and whip parts are stretched on separate beams.