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seel: in falconry, to close up a hawk's eyes when it is taken by drawing the upper eyelids down with a needle and thread which is fastened under the beak; fig. to blind Mac. III. ii. 46 “s-ing night,” Oth. I. iii. 271 (Qq “foyles”), III. iii. 210 “To her father's eyes up close as oak” (Ff1 2 “seele,” Qq Ff3 4 “seale”), Ant. III. xi. [xiii.] 112 ∥ Liable to confusion with SEAL vb.
A Shakespeare Glossary. C. T. Onions. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1911.
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