Definition of "seel"

seel¹

/siːl/

adjective
comparative more seel, superlative most seel
1. (obsolete) Good; fortunate; opportune; happy.

seel²

/siːl/

noun
plural seels
1. (UK, dialectal) Good fortune; happiness; bliss.
2. (UK, dialectal) Opportunity; time; season.

seel³

/siːl/

verb
third-person singular simple present seels, present participle seeling, simple past and past participle seeled
1. (falconry) To sew together the eyes of a young hawk.
  Quotations
  Hey who does blindly soar at Rhodalind […] Mounts, like seel'd doves, still higher […]
  1651, William Davenant, Gondibert
2. (by extension) To blind.

seel⁴

/siːl/

verb
third-person singular simple present seels, present participle seeling, simple past and past participle seeled
1. (intransitive, obsolete, of a ship) To roll on the waves in a storm.
  Quotations
  when a Ship seels or rowls in foul Weather
  c. 1611, Walter Raleigh, Observations on the Navy and Sea Service
noun
plural seels
1. (obsolete) The rolling or agitation of a ship in a storm.
  Quotations
  The ship hulls as the billows flow; / And all aboard at ev'ry seel, / Like drunkards, on the hatches reel.
  1636, G[eorge] S[andys], “(please specify the page)”, in A Paraphrase upon the Psalmes of David. And upon the Hymnes Dispersed throughout the Old and New Testaments, London: [Andrew Hebb […]]