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seel

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4 lettersPronunciation /siːl/Part of speech verbSorted eelsStarts with SEnds with L0 clues
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Definitions

  1. sew up the eyelids of hawks and falcons

Word origin

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”).

Used in a sentence

  • the seel of the day
  • Hey who does blindly soar at Rhodalind[…] Mounts, like seel'd doves, still higher[…]
  • when a Ship seels or rowls in foul Weather

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