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Webster 1913 Edition
Mailed
Mailed
,Adj.
(Zool.)
Protected by an external coat, or covering, of scales or plates.
Webster 1828 Edition
Mailed
MA'ILED
,pp.
1.
a. Spotted; speckled.Definition 2024
mailed
mailed
English
Verb
mailed
- simple past tense and past participle of mail
Etymology 2
From mail (“chainmail; spot on a bird's feather”).
Adjective
mailed (comparative more mailed, superlative most mailed)
- Armoured in, protected by, or made of mail.
- (rare) Spotted.
- 1888, Frederick Albion Ober, A Boy's Adventures in the West Indies, page 169:
- […] from blossom of lime to perfumed bloom of acacia — darts the humming-bird, his coat of mailed feathers glowing like a gem.
- 1888, Frederick Albion Ober, A Boy's Adventures in the West Indies, page 169:
Verb
mailed
- simple past tense and past participle of mail