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edral, castle, or other public building, which is used for keeping the records, charters, seals, deeds, and the like. Gwilt.

Of or pertaining to a notary; done or taken by a notary; as, a notarial seal; notarial evidence or attestation.

ests or certifies deeds and other writings, or copies of them, usually under his official seal, to make them authentic, especially in foreign countries. His duties chiefly relate to instruments used in commercial transactions, such as protests of negotiable paper, ship's papers in cases of loss, damage, etc. He is gene…

A sealing up. [Obs.] Maunder.

To seal; to confirm, as by a seal or stamp. [Obs.] Bradford.

To seal; to ratify. [Obs.] Barrow.

The act of sealing or ratifying; the state of being sealed or confirmed; confirmation, as by the Holy Spirit. The spirit of manifestation will but upbraid you in the shame and horror of a sad eternity, if you have not the spirit of obsignation. Jer. Taylor.

Ratifying; confirming by sealing. [Obs.] Samuel Ward (1643)

(Hidrastis Canadensis), having a yellow tuberous root; -- also called yellowroot, golden seal, etc.

Any eared seal.

lf, or other animal, prepared for writing on. See Vellum. But here's a parchment with the seal of Cæsar. Shak.

Oral declaration; word of mouth; also, a writing not under seal. Blackstone.

Louisiana; -- a nickname alluding to the device on its seal.

eternal death. The mere perdition of the Turkish fleet. Shak. If we reject the truth, we seal our own perdition. J. M. Mason.

A genus of seals. It includes the common harbor seal and allied species. See Seal.

Any species of Phoca; a seal.

Pertaining to seals.

Of or pertaining to the seal tribe; phocal.

An animal of the seal tribe, moving by short feet that serve as paddles.

One of the Pinnipedia; a seal.