mail cheeked (malchekt)

Having the cheeks mailed, as a fish, by the extension of certain suborbital bones, especially the third suborbital, to articulate with the the preopercle; sclerogenous: specifically said of the cottoids. mail-clad (māl'klad), a. 1. Clad with a coat of mail. The peer of our day. is in le danger going about weaponle than was the mail - clad knight with lance and sword. H. Spencer, Study of Sociol., p. 257. 2. By extension, in modern usage, defensively armed; clad in armor.