Seely vs Seels - What's the difference?
seely | seels |
(obsolete) Lucky, fortunate.
(obsolete) Innocent; harmless.
(obsolete) Pitiable, deserving of sympathy; poor, miserable.
*, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.57:
*:Whereas the poore, the banished, and seely servants, live often as carelesly and as pleasantly as the other.
(obsolete) Trifling, insignificant.
(obsolete) Silly, foolish.
(seel)
(UK, dialectal) Good fortune; happiness; bliss.
(UK, dialectal) Opportunity; time; season.
(falconry) To sew together the eyes of a young hawk.
* J. Reading
(by extension) To blind.
(intransitive, obsolete, of a ship) To roll on the waves in a storm.
* Samuel Pepys
As an adjective seely
is (obsolete) lucky, fortunate.As a verb seels is
(seel).seely
English
Alternative forms
* (l)Adjective
(en adjective)seels
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*seel
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) . More at (l).Alternative forms
* (l)Noun
(en noun)- the seel of the day
Derived terms
* (l) * (l)Etymology 3
From (etyl) (m), .Verb
(en verb)- Fond hopes, like seeled doves for want of better light, mount till they end their flight with falling.
Etymology 4
Compare (etyl) , and (etyl) (m) (transitive verb).Verb
(en verb)- (Sir Walter Raleigh)
