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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Seel

Seel, v. t.

verbtransitive

[imp. & p. p. SEELED; p. pr. & vb. n. SEELING.] [Fr. siller, ciller, from cil, Lat. cilium, an eyelash.]

Sense 1. To close the eyes of; to render incapable of seeing by sewing the eyelids together;—said of a hawk or other bird. Bacon.

Fools climb to fall: fond hopes, like seeled doves for want of better light, mount, till they end their flight with falling. J. Reading.

Sense 2. Hence, to shut the eyes of; to render blind.

Cold death, with a violent fate, his sable eyes did seel. Chapman.

Seel, v. i.

verbintransitive

[Cf. L. Ger. sielen, to lead off water; Icel. sila, to furrow, cut; Fr. siller, to run ahead, to make head-way.] To incline to one side; to lean. [Obs.] Bacon.

Seel or Seel'ing, n.

noun

The rolling or agitation of a ship in a storm. [Obs.] Ainsworth.

Seel, n.

noun

[A-S. sæl, sêl, a good opportunity or occasion, prosperity, fr. sæl, good, prosperous, happy; Goth. sêls, Icel. säll.] Time; opportunity; season; — applied especially to crops; as, hay-seel. [Prov. Eng.]