单词 | seel |
释义 | † seeln. Nautical. Obsolete. A sudden heeling over of a vessel in a storm. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > action or motion of vessel > [noun] > heeling or listing careen1591 heel1622 heeling1625 list1633 seel1644 seeling1644 hield1867 1644 H. Mainwaring Sea-mans Dict. (at cited word) The Lee-seele, is when she rowles to Leeward; there is no danger in this seele, though [etc.]. a1661 J. Glanville Voy. Cadiz (1883) 117 Our shipp did rolle more and fetch deeper and more dangerous Seeles then in the greatest storme. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 165/2 Seele, or seeling, is a sudden turning aside of a ship, forced by the motion of the Sea and fearful Winds. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Seeling When a ship thus tumbles to lee~ward, they call it lee-seel. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2021). † seelv.1 Nautical. Obsolete. intransitive. Of a ship: To make a sudden lurch to one side. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > action or motion of vessel > [verb (intransitive)] > heel or list blencha1300 rolla1325 heelc1575 seela1618 list1626 stoop1663 careen1762 to lie along1769 to lay along1779 wrong1842 to roll down1856 society > travel > travel by water > action or motion of vessel > [verb (intransitive)] > jerk suddenly seela1618 lurch1834 surge1845 a1618 W. Raleigh Observ. Royal Navy (1650) 24 When a Ship seels or roules in foule weather. 1626 G. Sandys tr. Ovid Metamorphosis xi. 228 They plie their tasks: some seeling yards bestry'd And take in sailes. 1692 Smith's Sea-mans Gram. (new ed.) i. xvi. 81 The Ship seels, that is, when on a sudden she lies down on her side, and tumbles from one side to the other. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Seeling If she rowls or seels to windward, there is fear of her coming over too short or suddenly. DerivativesΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > action or motion of vessel > [noun] > heeling or listing careen1591 heel1622 heeling1625 list1633 seel1644 seeling1644 hield1867 1644 H. Mainwaring Sea-mans Dict. at Seele So that seeling is but a suddaine heeling, forced by the motion, and feare of the sea or wind. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2021). seelv.2 1. transitive. To close the eyes of (a hawk or other bird) by stitching up the eyelids with a thread tied behind the head; chiefly used as part of the taming process in falconry. Also, to stitch up (the eyes of a bird). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > hawking > [verb (transitive)] > sew up eyes sile1398 enseel1486 seela1500 a1500 in Harting Perf. Bk. Sparhawkes (1886) Introd. 12 Take the outsyd of her ye and put thorgh ye nedell and the threde [etc.]... And then thou maist sey she is a seled. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 479/1 I cele a hauke or a pigyon whan I sowe up their eyes for caryage or otherwyse. 1611 B. Jonson Catiline ii. sig. E He, tame Crow,..would haue kept Both eyes, and beake seal'd vp, for sixe sesterces . View more context for this quotation 1641 R. Greville Disc. Nature Episcopacie 5 Your Faulkners seele a Pigeons eye (when they would haue her soare high) to prevent a Vertigo. 1647 H. Hexham Copious Eng. & Netherduytch Dict. (Hawking) To seile a Hawke. 1797 Encycl. Brit. at Falconry Care ought to be taken, not to seel her too hard. 1817 W. Scott Rob Roy I. v. 100 You cannot..reclaim a hawk..or direct his diet when he is sealed. 1852 R. F. Burton Falconry in Valley of Indus vi. 68 A bird of the same colour with eyes seeled and wings shortened. 1897 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport I. 373/1 (Falconry) Seel, to sew up the upper eyelids of a hawk, and tie the threads behind the head. An obsolete practice now superseded by the hood. 2. transferred. To close (a person's eyes). Also figurative to make blind, to prevent from seeing, hoodwink. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > not seeing or preventing from seeing > prevent from seeing [verb (transitive)] > close (a person's) eyes bung1589 seel1605 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. iv. 140 Thy light is darkned, and thine eyes are seeld. a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1623) iii. iii. 214 Shee that so young could giue out such a Seeming To seele her Fathers eyes vp. a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) iii. xiii. 113 But when we in our viciousnesse grow hard..the wise Gods seele our eyes In our owne filth. View more context for this quotation 1633 T. Adams Comm. 2 Peter (i. 18) 326 It is bad to have the eyes sieled, but worse to have the eares sealed up. 1814 R. Southey Roderick xvi. 240 A life-long night Seel'd his broad eye. Derivatives seeled adj. /siːld/ ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > covers or hangings > [adjective] > having hangings > canopy seeleda1586 canopied1594 baldachined1906 a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) i. xv. sig. K1v Now she brought them to see a seeled Doue, who the blinder she was, the higher she straue. 1625 F. Quarles Sions Sonets xv. iii These seiled eyes that slept So soundly fast, awak'd, much faster wept. 1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. xxvi. sig. N2v Their soules haue ceeled eyes, that can see nothing but perfection, in their owne labours. 1661 R. Boyle Some Consid. Style of Script. (1675) 186 Lovers like ceel'd Pidgeons flying the Higher for having been Blinded. 1797 Encycl. Brit. at Hawking Then cast out a sealed duck. ˈseeling n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > hawking > [noun] > hawking procedures casting1388 to come to reclaima1398 rebukingc1400 plumage?a1450 enseamingc1575 imping1575 mewing1575 weathering1575 manning1580 lure1614 carry1618 coping1855 seeling1859 1859 Ld. Tennyson Merlin & Vivien 123 in Idylls of King Their talk was all of training, terms of art, Diet and seeling. ˈseeling adj. ΚΠ a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iii. ii. 47 Come, seeling Night, Skarfe vp the tender Eye of pittiful Day. View more context for this quotation 1852 R. F. Burton Falconry in Valley of Indus iv. 48 The seeling threads are cut short. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † seelv.3 Obsolete. rare. Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. (See quot. 1728.) ΚΠ 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Seeling A Horse is said to Seel, when upon his Eye-brows, there grows about the Breadth of a Farthing of white Hairs, mixed with those of his natural Colour; which is a Mark of Old Age. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1644v.1a1618v.2a1500v.31728 |
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