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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

... purpose is to publish reprints (usually facsimile reproductions) of rare seventeenth and eighteenth century works. All income of the Society is devoted to defraying costs of publication and mailing. ...

— Clarissa: Preface, Hints of Prefaces, and Postscript • Samuel Richardson

... his employer at once, individually and at great length. Among them were half a dozen of pornographic intent and plainly of American origin, though the makers had modestly omitted both their names and the form for mailing. He next brought out some of his own handiwork—a pair of American pants, which he had made himself, and two suits of solid silk underwear. He informed Anthony confidentially as to the purpose for which these latter were reserved. ...

— The Beautiful and Damned • F. Scott Fitzgerald

... building is 120 feet long by 40 broad, making the salesroom, which is on the first floor, one of the most elegant in the country. On the second floor are Mr. Lothrop's offices, also the editorial offices of 'Wide Awake,' etc. On the third floor are the composing rooms and mailing rooms of the different periodicals, while the ...

— The Bay State Monthly - Volume 2, Issue 3, December, 1884 • Various

... swore over the statement that General Waymouth issued to the voters of the State—a document that bound the party to a professed programme of honest reorganization. The treasurer of the State Committee drew checks amounting to more than fifteen thousand dollars to pay for the printing, postage, and mailing of those statements—a bitter expense, indeed, considering the nature of the promises. Presson saw only gratuitous stirring of trouble in the hateful declarations the General made. It was his theory that in politics voters ...

— The Ramrodders - A Novel • Holman Day

... in Moor-mailing, (Shots parish) with his brother when returning home from Pentland, William stepped aside to a neighbour's house when near home upon a certain errand; but not coming out soon, his brother went to see for him. But when going past the window, he had a glance of two men and a woman standing round his ...

— Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) • John Howie

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