Seel
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /siːl/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Seel is an adjective meaning (UK, dialectal) Good fortune; happiness; bliss.
Meaning
(UK, dialectal) Good fortune; happiness; bliss.
More Meanings
- (UK, dialectal) Opportunity; time; season.
- (falconry) To sew together the eyelids of a young hawk.
- (by extension) To blind.
- (intransitive, obsolete, of a ship) To roll on the waves in a storm.
- (obsolete) Good; fortunate; opportune; happy.
- (obsolete) The rolling or agitation of a ship in a storm.
Example Sentences
the seel of the day
when a Ship seels or rowls in foul Weather
Hey who does blindly soar at Rhodalind[…] Mounts, like seel'd doves, still higher[…]
The ship hulls as the billows flow; / And all aboard at ev'ry seel, / Like drunkards, on the hatches reel.
Word Forms
- seels
- seeling
- seeled
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include wealful, felicitous, favourable, set fair, serendipitous, fortuitous.
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