noun
definition
A pinniped (Pinnipedia), particularly an earless seal (true seal) or eared seal.
example
The seals in the harbor looked better than they smelled.
definition
A bearing representing a creature something like a walrus.
verb
definition
To hunt seals.
example
They're organizing a protest against sealing.
Examples of seal in a Sentence
I had to seal the hemispheres.
Than an idea struck me; if we were sealed in, why not seal him out?
I've got someone coming up here to seal the place off.
The 5th duke was lord privy seal 1842-1846, and president of the council 1846.
She put down the geometry book and eagerly broke the seal of her letter.
In 1502 Warham was consecrated bishop of London and became keeper of the great seal, but his tenure of both these offices was short, as in 1504 he became lord chancellor and archbishop of Canterbury.
Such a mitre appears on a seal of Archbisho p Thomas Becket (Father Thurston, The ?P allium, London, 1892, p. 17), The custom was, however, .already growing up of setting the horns over the front and back of the head instead of the sides (the mitre said to have belonged to St Thomas Becket, now at Westminster Cathedral, is of this type), 1 and with this the essential character of the mitre, as it persisted through the middle ages, was established.
We'll seal the vault the best we can.
He gripped her trembling arm and placed the seal on her wrist.
Father Braun (Liturgische Gewandung, p. 457) gives a picture of a seal of Charles IV.
To this ' The 10th of May has been made a holiday in North Carolina, and the date appears on the state flag and the state seal; and a statue has been erected at Charlotte in memory of the signers of the " Declaration."
Before she fell again for Sirian's lies, she pushed the lever to seal his cell and walked away, rage and confusion making her head spin.
The precepts of the law were valuable in the eyes of the Scribes because they were the seal of Jewish particularism, the barrier erected between the world at large and the exclusive community of Yahweh's grace.
The Senate, in which the partisans of the ministry had been increased by numerous appointments ad hoc, finally set the seal of its approval upon the measure.
John accepted the Articles on the same day and at once the great seal was affixed to them.
The apothecaries' ordinance at Nuremberg provided that no Theriaca should in future be branded with the seal of the city unless it had been previously examined and declared worthy of the same by the doctors of medicine, and that every druggist must know the age of the Theriaca he sold.
Landon issued orders to the dealers last night to seal the others in the lakes where we found the souls originally.
The magic I used to kill her, I also used to seal the tumor.
If she ever escaped, she would seal him in the blackest hole she could find!
He became by a singular arrangement, only repeated in the case of Lord Ellenborough, a member of the cabinet, and remained in that position through various changes of administration for nearly fifteen years, and, although he persistently refused the chancellorship, he acted as Speaker of the House of Lords while the Great Seal was in commission.
In March 1679 a new parliament hostile to Danby was returned, and he was forced to resign the treasurership; but he received a pardon from the king under the Great Seal, and a warrant for a marquessate.
In April 1673 he was appointed lord privy seal, and was disappointed at not obtaining the great seal the same year on the removal of Shaftesbury.
In Herat, where he spent the greater part of his life, he gained the favour of that famous patron of letters, Mir `Alishir (1440-1501), who served his old schoolfellow, the reigning sultan Husain (who as the last of the Timurides in Persia ascended the throne of Herat in 1468), first as keeper of the seal, afterwards as governor of Jurjan.
This tame acquiescence of the House of Habsburg in the reorganization of Germany seemed to set the seal on Napoleon's work.
He was cofferer to the king, treasurer of the wardrobe and afterwards clerk of the privy seal.
The usual form of pardon in the United States is by deed under seal of the executive.
For instance, compare a seal's flipper with a bird's wing.
The old man continued to fold and seal his letter, snatching up and throwing down the wax, the seal, and the paper, with his accustomed rapidity.
His shriveled old hands were folded and on the finger of one of them Pierre noticed a large cast iron ring with a seal representing a death's head.
While listening to the officer's report Konovnitsyn broke the seal and read the dispatch.
This statue was itself based on the Great Seal of the Abbey of Walsingham from the original Shrine destroyed in 1538.
These awards include the Florida Academic Scholars Award (FAS), Florida Medallion Scholars Award (FMS) and the Florida Gold Seal Vocational Scholars Award (GSV).
Seal the bag tightly, and give it to the vet immediately.
This involves sanding it down and reapplying a finishing product to protect and seal the wood.
Once the crown molding is up you will probably want to caulk around it to seal any gaps.
Once you get it cleaned and dried be sure to seal the grout to make cleaning easier in the future.
Under the influence of Archbishop Chicheley, who had himself founded two colleges in imitation of Wykeham, and Thomas Bekynton, king's secretary and privy seal, and other Wyke - hamists, Henry VI., on the 11th of October 1440, founded, in imitation of Winchester College, "a college in the parish church of Eton by Windsor not far from our birthplace," called the King's College of the Blessed Mary of Eton by Windsor, as "a sort of first-fruits of his taking the government on himself."
A specialty debt is created by deed or instrument under seal.
Still, Lake Baikal has a seal (Phoca vitulina, Phoca baikalensis of Dybowski) quite akin to the seals of Spitsbergen, marine sponges, polychaetes, a marine mollusc (ancilodoris), and some marine gammarids.
The proof of the supernaturalness of His Person sets the seal to the credibility of His.
In an act of 1534, with regard to ecclesiastical appeals from the courts of the archbishops to the crown, it is provided that the appeal shall be to the king in Chancery, "and that upon every such appeal a commission shall be directed under the great seal to such persons as shall be named by the king's highness, his heirs or successors, like as in cases of appeal from the Admiralty Court."
In this way Lanfranc set the seal of intellectual activity on the reform movement of which Bec was the centre.
Sealskins and other furs, and whale and seal oil, are exported, and the herring fishery is very productive.
This scene of the fight with the bull is often depicted on seal cylinders.
Can you set to your seal that they are true by the work of the same spirit in you that gave them forth in the holy ancients ?
It might be expected that there should be a decrease in the Greenland seal fisheries, caused by the European and American sealers catching larger quantities every year, especially along the coasts of Newfoundland and Labrador, and so actually diminishing the number of the animals in the Greenland seas.
The average number of seals killed annually is about 33,000.1 The 1 Owing to representations of the Swedish government in 1874 as to the killing of seals at breeding time on the east coast of Greenland, and the consequent loss of young seals left to die of starvation, the Seal Fisheries Act 1875 was passed in England to provide for the establishment of a close time for seal fishery in the seas in question.
The chief articles of export (together with those that have lapsed) have been already indicated; but they may be summarized as including seal-oil, seal, fox, bird and bear skins, fish products and eiderdown, with some quantity of worked skins.
In 1467 Rotherham became keeper of the privy seal to this king; in 1468 he was appointed bishop of Worcester, in 1472 bishop of Lincoln and in 1475 chancellor of England.
If the fire is in working places to the rise the water may not reach the burning portions of the mine, but will effectually seal them.