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unseeling

unseeling is the present participle and gerund of unseel.

Meaning of unseel

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...

Questions about unseeling

What is unseeling the present participle and gerund of?
Unseeling is the present participle and gerund of unseel.

Words near unseeling in the dictionary

  1. unseekable
  2. unseeking
  3. unseel
  4. unseeled
  5. unseelie
  6. unseeling
  7. unseels
  8. unseeming
  9. unseemingly
  10. unseemlier
  11. unseemliest

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unseeling (page history and authors); unseel (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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