Found 2 items, similar to SEel.
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Definition: seel
seel
v : sew up the eyelids of hawks and falcons
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Seel
Seel
\Seel\, Seeling
\Seel"ing\, n.
The rolling or agitation of a ship in a storm. [Obs.]
--Sandys.
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Seel
\Seel\, n. [AS. s[=ae]l, from s[=ae]l good, prosperous. See
Silly.]
1. Good fortune; favorable opportunity; prosperity. [Obs.]
“So have I seel”. --Chaucer.
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2. Time; season; as, hay seel. [Prov. Eng.]
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Seel
\Seel\ (s[=e]l), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Seeled; p. pr. & vb.
n.
Seeling.] [F. siller, ciller, fr. cil an eyelash, L.
cilium.]
1. (Falconry) To close the eyes of (a hawk or other bird) by
drawing through the lids threads which were fastened over
the head. --Bacon.
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Fools climb to fall: fond hopes, like seeled doves
for want of better light, mount till they end their
flight with falling. --J. Reading.
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2. Hence, to shut or close, as the eyes; to blind.
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Come, seeling night,
Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day. --Shak.
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Cold death, with a violent fate, his sable eyes did
seel. --Chapman.
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Seel
\Seel\, v. i. [Cf. LG. sielen to lead off water, F. siller
to run ahead, to make headway, E. sile, v.t.]
To incline to one side; to lean; to roll, as a ship at sea.
[Obs.] --Sir W. Raleigh.
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