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Seel
Definitions
- 1 Good; fortunate; opportune; happy. obsolete
- 1 Good fortune; happiness; bliss. UK, dialectal
- 2 The rolling or agitation of a ship in a storm. obsolete
"The ship hulls as the billows flow; / And all aboard at ev'ry seel, / Like drunkards, on the hatches reel."
- 3 Opportunity; time; season. UK, dialectal
"the seel of the day"
- 1 To sew together the eyelids of a young hawk.
"Hey who does blindly soar at Rhodalind[…] Mounts, like seel'd doves, still higher[…]"
- 2 To roll on the waves in a storm. intransitive, obsolete
"when a Ship seels or rowls in foul Weather"
- 3 sew up the eyelids of hawks and falcons wordnet
- 4 To blind. broadly
Etymology
From Middle English sel, sele, from Old English *sǣle (“good, fortunate, happy”) (attested in Old English unsǣle (“evil, wicked”)), from Proto-Germanic *sēliz (“good, happy”), from Proto-Indo-European *sel-, *sēl- (“to calm, quiet, be favourable”). Cognate with Danish sæl (“blissful”), Dutch zalig (“blissful”), Gothic 𐍃𐌴𐌻𐍃 (sēls, “good, kind, useful”), Icelandic sæll (“blissful”), Latin sōlor (“to comfort, console”), Swedish säll (“blissful”).
From Middle English sele, sel, from Old English sǣl (“time, occasion, a fit time, season, opportunity, the definite time at which an event should take place, time as in bad or good times, circumstances, condition, position, happiness, joy, good fortune, good time, prosperity”), from Proto-Germanic *sēliz (“luck, joy”), from Proto-Indo-European *sel-, *sēl- (“to calm, quiet, be favourable”). Cognate with Icelandic sæla (“bliss”), Dutch zalig (“blissful, blessed”). More at silly.
From Middle English silen, from Old French siller, ciller (“to sew up the eyelids of, hoodwink, wink”), from cil (“eyelid”), from Latin cilium (“eyelid, eyelash”).
Ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *sīgan (“to drop”). Compare Low German sielen (“to lead off water”), French siller (“to run ahead, to make headway”), and English sile (transitive verb).
Ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *sīgan (“to drop”). Compare Low German sielen (“to lead off water”), French siller (“to run ahead, to make headway”), and English sile (transitive verb).
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