mailed

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /meɪld/, [meɪɫd]
• Rhymes: -eɪld

Etymology 1

From mail (“send by post”).

Verb

mailed

1. simple past and past participle of mail

Etymology 2

From Middle English mayled; equivalent to mail (“chainmail; spot on a bird's feather”) +‎ -ed.

Adjective

mailed (comparative more mailed, superlative most mailed)

1. Armoured in, protected by, or made of mail.
   • 1843, Charles Knight, London, volumes 5-6, page 38:

     [I]n the niches, instead of the effigies of mailed warriors, stood stuffed-out dresses, such as are worn by the fashionables of the day.

2. (rare) Resembling the scales of armor.
   • 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.

Derived terms

• mailed catfish
• mailed fist
• unmailed

Verb

mailed

1. simple past and past participle of mail

Related terms

• mail

Anagrams

• Imelda, medial, Deilam, Dameli, maelid

Middle English

Adjective

mailed

1. alternative form of mayled