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Mailed

Mail \Mail\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mailed; p. pr. & vb. n. Mailing.] To deliver into the custody of the postoffice officials, or place in a government letter box, for transmission by mail; to post; as, to mail a letter. [U. S.]

Note: In the United States to mail and to post are both in common use; as, to mail or post a letter. In England post is the commoner usage.

Mailed

Mailed \Mailed\, a. (Zo["o]l.) Protected by an external coat, or covering, of scales or plates.

Mailed

Mailed \Mailed\, a. [See 1st Mail.] Spotted; speckled.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mailed

"having mail armor," late 14c., from mail (n.2).

Wiktionary
mailed

Etymology 1 vb. (en-past of: mail) Etymology 2

  1. 1 armoured in, protected by, or made of mail. 2 (lb en rare) spotted. v

  2. (en-past of: mail)

WordNet
mailed

adj. wearing protective mail [syn: mail-clad]

Usage examples of "mailed".

We offered premiums to this highly targeted list of advertisers for correctly counting the number of times Your Place appeared in the brochure we mailed out.

Now beholding the scarred face of him, the tender, smiling lips, the adoration in his grey eyes, she trembled amain and, swaying to him, rested her hands on his mailed shoulders.

The soldier, its eyes glowing bright red in its impassive face, struck its chestplate with a mailed fist, and the apse rang like a bell with the sound.

Instead, it had been mailed from the town where Croom had conveyed the Argyle treasures.

When Jackie had gone, Selwood explained that Althorn mailed a fresh box nearly every day, as pecans were about the only type of present that he could buy in the remote region of Georgia, where the Aureole Mine was located.

At a fast trot, the warband turned around the bend in the road, twenty men, mailed, mounted on good horses, and on their shields was the red and gold blazon of Cwm Peel.

His heavily muscled body wore his dented mailed shirt, the leather hacqueton beneath it, his fur kilt and the fur-flapped war-boots on his feet.

She had just mailed a letter to Arpad Leen, confirming all the orders she had given to him on the telephone.

Varta touched her tongue without fear to a powdered restorative, sharing it with Lur, whose own mailed skin would protect him through the dangers to come.

Below she could see a smaller circle of men had approached nearer-to the bailey wall and, in front of them, within hailing distance, Mauger de Cotsine himself, fully mailed and helmeted.

Last night, Mullrick had dispatched a letter, which Pascual had mailed.

She was almost grateful to be imprisoned in her own bedchamber, even if the mailed knight called Payn required her to lie on her bed and was now binding her hands and feet with a length of cord and securing the ends to the carved bedposts.

His most recent triumph had been the development of the infected handkerchief that the CIA mailed to General Abdul Karim al-Kassem, the Iraq military strongman who had fallen afoul of the wonks who masterminded American foreign policy.

She had mailed all three bags simultaneously, the one from the Birth Center, the unwrapped one from the ambulance, and the one she had bribed from the warehouse receptionist.

Guidons and bannerets fluttered like bright butterflies above those mailed men of old.