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unseel

/ʌnˈsiːl/

unseel verb: to unstitch the seeled eyes of a hawk.

Verb

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

  1. (obsolete) To unstitch the seeled eyes of a hawk.
  2. (broadly, figuratively, obsolete) To give light to; to enlighten.
    • Are your eyes yet unseel'd1610 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Alchemist, London: […] Thomas Snodham, for Walter Burre, and are to be sold by Iohn Stepneth, […], published 1612, →OCLC, (please specify the Internet...

Forms of unseel

third-person singular presentunseels
present participleunseeling
past participleunseeled
pastunseeled

Origin of unseel

From Middle English unsele, from Old English unsǣle, from Proto-Germanic *unsēliz, from *un- + *sēliz, equivalent to un- + seel.

Questions about unseel

What does unseel mean?
Unseel means to unstitch the seeled eyes of a hawk.
What part of speech is unseel?
Unseel is a verb.
How do you pronounce unseel?
Unseel is pronounced /ʌnˈsiːl/.
What is the past tense of unseel?
The past tense of unseel is unseeled.

Words near unseel in the dictionary

  1. unseeing
  2. unseeingly
  3. unseeingness
  4. unseekable
  5. unseeking
  6. unseel
  7. unseeled
  8. unseelie
  9. unseeling
  10. unseels
  11. unseeming

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