Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Covered with or made of plates of mail: a mailed sleeve.
- adj. Having a hard covering of scales, spines, or horny plate, as an armadillo or a lobster.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Spotted; speckled.
- In zoology, loricate; lepidote; cataphracted; provided with scales, plates, shields, bucklers, or the like, which serve for defensive armor like a coat of mail. See lorica, loricate, Loricata.
Wiktionary
- adj. Armoured, protected by or made of mail.
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of mail.
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of mail.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Zoöl.) Protected by an external coat, or covering, of scales or plates.
- adj. Spotted; speckled.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. wearing protective mail
Examples
“This is my experience, without fail, on dozens of packages mailed from the USA to me in Mexico from 2002 to 2009.”
“However, this information can be e-mailed from the location to the reporter.”
“I, today, await a replacement American Express Card mailed from the United States six weeks ago.”
“Last month I made my semi-annual check and found stuff that had been mailed from the consulate in Guad, and folks in the U.S. back in November.”
“For nearly two decades, this mysterious man had targeted scientists and technology professionals with bombs hidden in mailed packages, disguised as books, or embedded in pieces of scrap wood.”
“In August 1958, a friend with a tiny record label mailed out 500 copies.”
“Its ruler, with the kid gloves he called mailed fists and the high class tailoring he called shining armour, did much of the talking, though he is in practice a most peaceful teetotaller, as many men with their imaginations full of the romance of war are.”
New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index
“The winner was selected by Atlanta, Ga. -based OfficeArrow, an Internet problem-solving association for executive assistants and business consultants, with the name mailed to Whatley in a sealed envelope.”
“The agreement gives Blockbuster a huge four-week advance over second largest (and second highest-grossing) movie studio in the world -- a massive advantage considering Netflix subscribers will have to wait an entire MONTH to have the same titles mailed to them.”
“I doubt if even you would seriously accuse the Extraterrestrials 'Rights Association of favoring what you call a mailed-fist-and-rattling-saber policy.”
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The things they carried (List 2)
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