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Webster 1913 Edition


Unseel

Un-seel′

,
Verb.
T.
[1st pref.
un-
+
seel
.]
To open, as the eyes of a hawk that have been seeled; hence, to give light to; to enlighten.
[Obs.]
B. Jonson.

Definition 2024


unseel

unseel

English

Verb

unseel (third-person singular simple present unseels, present participle unseeling, simple past and past participle unseeled)

  1. (obsolete) To open, as the eyes of a hawk that have been seeled.
  2. (obsolete, by extension) To give light to; to enlighten.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Ben Jonson to this entry?)