mailed

Covered with or made of plates of mail.

Having a hard covering of scales, spines, or horny plate, as an armadillo or a lobster.

Spotted; speckled.

In zoology, 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, Loricata.

Protected by an external coat, or covering, of scales or plates.