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.
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.
To incline to one side; to lean; to roll, as a ship at sea. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.
Good fortune; favorable opportunity; prosperity. [Obs.] "So have I seel". Chaucer.
Time; season; as, hay seel. [Prov. Eng.]
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