seel
(verb) sew up the eyelids of hawks and falcons
Source: WordNet® 3.1
seel (comparative more seel, superlative most seel)
(obsolete) Good; fortunate; opportune; happy.
seel (plural seels)
(UK, dialectal) Good fortune; happiness; bliss.
(UK, dialectal) Opportunity; time; season.
seel (third-person singular simple present seels, present participle seeling, simple past and past participle seeled)
(falconry) To sew together the eyes of a young hawk.
(by extension) To blind.
seel (third-person singular simple present seels, present participle seeling, simple past and past participle seeled)
(intransitive, obsolete, of a ship) To roll on the waves in a storm.
seel (plural seels)
(obsolete) The rolling or agitation of a ship in a storm.
• EELS, ELEs, Lees, Slee, eels, else, l'ees, lees, lese, sele
Source: Wiktionary
Seel, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Seeled; p. pr. & vb. n. Seeling.] Etym: [F.siller, ciller, fr. cil an eyelash, L. cilium.]
1. (Falconry)
Definition: To close the eyes of (a hawk or other bird) by drawing through the lids threads which were fastened over the head. Bacon. Fools climbs to fall: fond hopes, like seeled doves for want of better light, mount till they end their flight with falling. J. Reading.
2. Hence, to shut or close, as the eyes; to blind. Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day. Shak. Gold death, with a violent fate, his sable eyes did seel. Chapman.
Seel, v. i. Etym: [Cf. LG. sielen to lead off water, F. siller to run ahead, to make headway, E. sile, v.t.]
Definition: To incline to one side; to lean; to roll, as a ship at sea. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.
Seel, Seel"ing, n.
Definition: The rolling or agitation of a ship in a sterm. [Obs.] Sandys.
Seel, n. Etym: [AS. s, from s good, prosperous. See Silly.]
1. Good fortune; favorable opportunity; prosperity. [Obs.] "So have I seel". Chaucer.
2. Time; season; as, hay seel. [Prov. Eng.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
15 April 2025
(adjective) marked by or promising bad fortune; “their business venture was doomed from the start”; “an ill-fated business venture”; “an ill-starred romance”; “the unlucky prisoner was again put in irons”- W.H.Prescott
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