Seel
. To close the eyelids of a hawk by running a thread through them; to hoodwink. (French, ciller, cil, the eyelash.)
“She that so young could give out such a seeming,
To seel her father’s eyes up, close as oak.”
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Entry taken from
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable,
edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.