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seel

  [seel]
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–verb (used with object)
1. Falconry. to sew shut (the eyes of a falcon) during parts of its training.
2. Archaic.
a. to close (the eyes).
b. to blind.
Origin:
1490–1500; < MF siller, ciller, deriv. of cil eyelash < L cilium eyelid, eyelash; see cilia
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seel   (sēl)   
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 Indo-European roots.]
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