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Webster 1913 Edition
Dismail
Dis-mail′
,Verb.
T.
[Pref.
dis-
+ mail
: cf. OF. desmaillier
.] To divest of coat of mail.
Spenser.
Definition 2024
dismail
dismail
English
Verb
dismail (third-person singular simple present dismails, present participle dismailing, simple past and past participle dismailed)
- (archaic) To remove the chainmail or armour from (someone).
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vi:
- Their mightie strokes their haberieons dismayld, / And naked made each others manly spalles [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vi: