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noun

Mailing n. A farm. (Scot.)

mailing n.

The act or process of sending materials through the mail.

A quantity of mail, such as letters, magazines, advertising brochures, etc., sent at one time by one person or organization; as, the ads with coupons will go out in our next mailing.

verb

Mail v. t.

To arm with mail.

To pinion. (Obs.)

Mail v. t. (past & past part. mailed; pres. part. 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.

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"Mailing" Quotes from Famous Books

... points from which they wish to order their plants. Packages weighing four pounds and less can be sent by mail and received with our letters, and by a little inquiry and calculation it may be found the cheapest and most convenient way of obtaining them. I find no difficulty in mailing all the small fruit plants to ...

— Success With Small Fruits • E. P. Roe

... Ted said, "Never mind, we'll have another party, and invite them; and I'll see to mailing the invitations myself." ...

— Patty Fairfield • Carolyn Wells

... valuable. The Johnsonian News Letter has said of them: "Excellent facsimiles, and cheap in price, these represent the triumph of modern scientific reproduction. Be sure to become a subscriber; and take it upon yourself to see that your college library is on the mailing list." ...

— An Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, Humour, Railery, Satire, and Ridicule (1744) • Corbyn Morris

... from a week-long circuit of outposts, found awaiting him a letter bearing Northern imprints of mailing and forwarding, from Hilary Kincaid, written long before in prison and telling another whole history, of a kind so common in war that we have already gone by it; a story of being left for dead in the long stupor of a brain hurt; ...

— Kincaid's Battery • George W. Cable

... forget everything if only he will come back. I thought of mailing this, only I know him: he'd have a good impulse, first thwarted by some one, some one who would finally make him ...

— Redemption and Two Other Plays • Leo Tolstoy et al

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