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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

... say it was true?" cried Havens—"that about the opium and the wreck, and the black-mailing, and the man ...

— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson

... In the mailing of a tariff bill the prime motive is taxation and the securing thereby of a revenue. Due largely to the business depression which followed the financial panic of 1907, the revenue from customs and other sources has decreased to such an extent that the expenditures for the ...

— United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches - From Washington to George W. Bush • Various

... at a time. He found the package, and impelled by an inexplicable curiosity he counted the pictures and found there were seven. "She said six," he thought to himself. "I am positive she said there were only six." He took one of the pictures and put it in one of the mailing envelopes. He took another picture, and after giving it a long, loving look he placed it in the inside pocket of his coat, and with a guilty flush upon his face he ...

— Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks - A Picture of New England Home Life • Charles Felton Pidgin

... faither had consented to our marriage; but, at the same time, he half cast up to me, that I had but an ill-plenished house to take home a wife to—that I had neither meal in the press, kye in the byre, nor oxen in the court-yard. His own mailing was but poorly provided at the time; and had he looked at hame, he hardly would have ventured to ...

— Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume III • Various

... to understand that this is one of the little black-mailing schemes peculiar to semi-civilization, and which, it is perhaps hardly necessary to explain, comes a trifle too late in the chapter of my Asiatic experiences to influence my movements or to replenish the exchequer of the picturesque and enterprising person desirous ...

— Around the World on a Bicycle Volume II. - From Teheran To Yokohama • Thomas Stevens

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