Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day.
Shak.
Cold death, with a violent fate, his sable eyes did seel.
Chapman.
Seel, v. i. [Cf. LG. sielen to lead off water, F. siller to run ahead,
to make headway, E. sile, v.t.] To incline to one side; to lean; to
roll, as a ship at sea. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.
{ Seel (?), Seel"ing, } n. The rolling or agitation of a ship in a
storm. [Obs.] Sandys.
Seel, n. [AS. sl, from sl good, prosperous. See Silly.] 1. Good
fortune; favorable opportunity; prosperity. [Obs.] "So have I seel".
Chaucer.