unseel

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʌnˈsiːl/
• Homophone: unseal

Verb

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

1. (obsolete) To open, as the eyes of a hawk that have been seeled.
2. (obsolete, by extension) To give light to; to enlighten.
   • 1610 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Alchemist, London: […] Thomas Snodham, for Walter Burre, and are to be sold by Iohn Stepneth, […], published 1612, →OCLC; reprinted Menston, Yorkshire: The Scolar Press, 1970, →OCLC, (please specify the GB page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     Are your eyes yet unseel'd

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “unseel”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)