What does "seel" mean?
Seel: 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.
Additional senses
- 2.To incline to one side; to lean; to roll, as a ship at sea. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.
- 3.The rolling or agitation of a ship in a sterm. [Obs.] Sandys.
- 4.Good fortune; favorable opportunity; prosperity. [Obs.] "So have I seel". Chaucer.
- 5.Time; season; as, hay seel. [Prov. Eng.]
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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