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Webster 1913 Edition

Seel

Seel

(sēl)
,
Verb.
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.
Fools climb 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.
Shakespeare
Cold death, with a violent fate, his sable eyes did
seel
.
Chapman.

Seel

,
Verb.
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.

Seel

,
Noun.
[AS.
sǣl
, from
sǣl
good, prosperous. See
Silly
.]
1.
Good fortune; favorable opportunity; prosperity.
[Obs.]
“So have I seel”.
Chaucer.
2.
Time; season;
as, hay
seel
.
[Prov. Eng.]

Webster 1828 Edition

Seel

SEEL

,
Verb.
T.
To close the eyes; a term of falconry, from the practice of the closing the eyes of a wild hawk.

SEEL

,
Verb.
I.
[See Sell.] To lean ; to incline to one side. Obs.

SEEL

,
Noun.
The rolling or agitation of a ship in a storm. Obs.

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