tr.v. seeled, seel·ing, seels To stitch closed the eyes of (a falcon). [Middle English silen, from Old French cillier, from Medieval Latin ciliāre, from Latin cilium, lower eyelid; see kel-1 in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.] |
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