Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Covered with or made of plates of mail.
- adjective Having a hard covering of scales, spines, or horny plate, as an armadillo or a lobster.
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Protected by an external coat, or covering, of scales or plates.
- adjective Spotted; speckled.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
mail . - adjective
Armoured , protected by or made ofmail . - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
mail .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective wearing protective mail
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This is my experience, without fail, on dozens of packages mailed from the USA to me in Mexico from 2002 to 2009.
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This is my experience, without fail, on dozens of packages mailed from the USA to me in Mexico from 2002 to 2009.
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This is my experience, without fail, on dozens of packages mailed from the USA to me in Mexico from 2002 to 2009.
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This is my experience, without fail, on dozens of packages mailed from the USA to me in Mexico from 2002 to 2009.
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This is my experience, without fail, on dozens of packages mailed from the USA to me in Mexico from 2002 to 2009.
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This is my experience, without fail, on dozens of packages mailed from the USA to me in Mexico from 2002 to 2009.
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This is my experience, without fail, on dozens of packages mailed from the USA to me in Mexico from 2002 to 2009.
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This is my experience, without fail, on dozens of packages mailed from the USA to me in Mexico from 2002 to 2009.
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This is my experience, without fail, on dozens of packages mailed from the USA to me in Mexico from 2002 to 2009.
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This is my experience, without fail, on dozens of packages mailed from the USA to me in Mexico from 2002 to 2009.
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