mailcoach (malkoch)

A coach that conveys the public mails. Mail-coaches, which come to others, come not to me. Hannah More, To H. Walpole, 1788. mail-coif (māl'koif), n . Same as coif , 3 ( a ). mailed (mald), a. [ As for these our Hawkes, they bee not white, but white and mayled. Hakluyt's Voyages , I. 303. 2. In zoöl., 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, Loric at a. -Mailed bullheads, the fishes of the family Agonidæ. mailed-cheeks (māld'chēks), n. pl. In ichth., the gurnards or cottoids: a term translating Sclerogenidæ and joues cuira ées.