seel

Definition of seel

7 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

(obsolete)Good; fortunate; opportune; happy.

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adj

(obsolete)Good; fortunate; opportune; happy.

noun

(UK, dialectal)Good fortune; happiness; bliss.
(UK, dialectal)Opportunity; time; season.

“the seel of the day”
(obsolete)The rolling or agitation of a ship in a storm.

“The ship hulls as the billows flow; / And all aboard at ev'ry seel, / Like drunkards, on the hatches reel.”

verb

To sew together the eyelids of a young hawk.

“Hey who does blindly soar at Rhodalind[…] Mounts, like seel'd doves, still higher[…]”
(broadly)To blind.
(intransitive, obsolete)To roll on the waves in a storm.

“when a Ship seels or rowls in foul Weather”

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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,…

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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”).

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