seel
/siːl
/verb [with object] archaic
Close (a person’s eyes); prevent (someone) from seeing: the wise Gods seel our eyes in our own filth
Origin
Late 15th century (originally a term in falconry meaning 'stitch shut the eyelids of (a hawk')): from French ciller, or medieval Latin ciliare, from Latin cilium 'eyelid'.
Rhymes
- illatively
- Illawarra
- I'll be bound
- ill-behaved
- (I'll) be seeing you
- ill-bred
- ill breeding
- ill-chosen
- ill-concealed
- ill-conceived
- ill-considered
- ill-defined
- ill-deserved
- ill-disciplined
- Antarctic Ocean
- Antarctic Peninsula
- Antarctic petrel
- Antarctic Pole
- Antarctic Sea
- Antarctic toothfish
- Antarctic Treaty
- Antarctic wolf
- Antares
- antbear
- antbird