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A pinniped (Pinnipedia), particularly an earless seal (true seal) or eared seal.
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The seals in the harbor looked better than they smelled.
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A bearing representing a creature something like a walrus.
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To hunt seals.
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They're organizing a protest against sealing.
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A stamp used to impress a design on a soft substance such as wax.
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An impression of such stamp on wax, paper or other material used for sealing.
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A design or insignia usually associated with an organization or an official role.
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The front of the podium bore the presidential seal.
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Anything that secures or authenticates.
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Something which will be visibly damaged if a covering or container is opened, and which may or may not bear an official design.
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The result was declared invalid, as the seal on the meter had been broken.
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Confirmation or approval, or an indication of this.
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Her clothes always had her mom's seal of approval.
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Something designed to prevent liquids or gases from leaking through a joint.
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The canister is leaking. I think the main seal needs to be replaced.
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A tight closure, secure against leakage.
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Close the lid tightly to get a good seal.
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A chakra.
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To place a seal on (a document).
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To mark with a stamp, as an evidence of standard exactness, legal size, or merchantable quality.
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to seal silverware
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To fasten (something) so that it cannot be opened without visible damage.
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The cover is sealed. If anyone tries to open it, we'll know about it.
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To prevent people or vehicles from crossing (something).
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The border has been sealed until the fugitives are found.
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To close securely to prevent leakage.
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I've sealed the bottle to keep the contents fresh.
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To place in a sealed container.
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I've sealed the documents in this envelope.
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To place a notation of one's next move in a sealed envelope to be opened after an adjournment.
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After thinking for half an hour, the champion sealed his move.
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To guarantee.
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The last-minute goal sealed United’s win.
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To fix, as a piece of iron in a wall, with cement or plaster, etc.
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To close by means of a seal.
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to seal a drainpipe with water
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To confirm or set apart as a second or additional wife.
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To tie up animals (especially cattle) in their stalls.
Examples of seals in a Sentence
The influence of Newcastle and Sandwich, however, was too strong for him; he was thwarted and over-reached; and in 1748 he resigned the seals, and returned to cards and his books with the admirable composure which was one of his most striking characteristics.
The food of the white bear consists chiefly of seals and fish, in pursuit of which it shows great power of swimming and diving, and a considerable degree of sagacity; but its food also includes the carcases of whales, birds and their eggs, and grass and berries when these can be had.
They also claimed an interest in the fur seals, involving the right to protect them outside the three-mile limit.
This figure, also known as the vesica piscis, is common in ecclesiastical seals and as a glory or aureole in paintings of sculpture, surrounding figures of the Trinity, saints, &c. The figure is, however, sometimes referred to the almond, as typifying virginity; the French name for the symbol is Amande mystique.
Actual figures of a monster with a bull's head and man's body occurred on seals of Minoan fabric found on this and other Cretan sites.
Touches of colour may be added to vessels in course of manufacture by means of seals of molten glass, applied like sealing-wax; or by causing vessels to wrap themselves round with threads or coils of coloured glass.
The empire was bound together by roads, along which there was a regular postal service; and clay seals, which took the place of stamps, are now in the Louvre bearing the names of Sargon and his son.
These, now almost sixty in number (excluding seals), are all in a pictographic character which employed symbols somewhat elaborately depicted in relief, but reduced to conventional and " shorthand " representations in the incised texts.
This was too much even for Lord John Russell, and after a short and decisive correspondence Lord Palmerston resigned the seals of office.
In Europe, the use of seals among the early Greeks is well known.
But no answer could be extracted from the king, and after some delay Lord Salisbury took the seals.
Those who would consult him had first to surprise and bind him during his noonday slumber in a cave by the sea, where he was wont to pass the heat of the day surrounded by his seals.
In that year several schooners, fitted out in British Columbia for the capture of seals in the North Pacific, were seized by a United States cutter at a distance of 60 m.
It was decided that the United States had no jurisdiction in the Bering Sea beyond the three miles' limit, but the court also made regulations to prevent the wholesale slaughter of fur-bearing seals.
They lie entangled in a vast net of sea-weed; are the resort of innumerable birds, and used to be largely frequented by seals and sea-otters, which, however, have been almost completely driven away by unregulated hunting.
Amulets, seals, talismans, relics, ear or nose rings stamped with divine emblems or otherwise hallowed, communicate their holiness to the wearers and protect from the Adversary.
The medical school of the Civitas Hippocratica (as it called itself on its seals) held a high position in medieval times.
Re-elected to the Legislative Chamber in 1849 he succeeded Odilon Barrot as minister of justice, with the additional office of keeper of the seals, which he retained with short intervals until January 1852.
The Carnivora include bears, wolverines, wolves, raccoons, foxes, sables, martens, skunks, kolinskis, fitch, fishers, ermines, cats, sea otters, fur seals, hair seals, lions, tigers, leopards, lynxes, jackals, &c. The Rodentia include beavers, nutrias, musk-rats or musquash, marmots, hamsters, chinchillas, hares, rabbits, squirrels, &c. The Ungulata include Persian, Astrachan, Crimean, Chinese and Tibet lambs, mouflon, guanaco, goats, ponies, &c. The Marsupialia include opossums, wallabies and kangaroos.
Of sealskins there are two distinct classes, the fur seals and the hair seals.
The latter have no growth of fur under the stiff top hair and are killed, with few exceptions (generally of the marbled seals), on account of the oil and leather they yield.
The best fur seals are found off the Alaska coast and down as far south as San Francisco.
With, however, the exception of the pick of the Lobos Island seals the fur of the southern sea seals is very poor and only suitable for the cheapest market.
The young of the Greenland seals are called whitecoats on account of the early growth being of a yellowish white colour; the hair is to I in.
There are fewer hair seals in the southern than in the northern seas.
In England, for instance, the dressing of sables, martens, foxes, otters, seals, bears, lions, tigers and leopards is first rate; while with skunk, mink, musquash, chinchillas, beavers, lambs and squirrels, the Germans show better results, particularly in the last.
The English dye for seals is to-day undoubtedly the best; its constituents are more or less of a trade secret, but the principal ingredients comprise gall nuts, copper dust, camphor and antimony, and it would appear after years of careful watching that the atmosphere and particularly the water of London are partly responsible for good and lasting results.
Seals are hunted in Krasnovodsk Bay.
On his death on the i ith of January 1753 he bequeathed his books, manuscripts, prints, drawings, pictures, medals, coins, seals, cameos and other curiosities to the nation, on condition that parliament should pay to his executors £20,000, which was a good deal less than the value of the collection.
They had been plundered and were destroyed to within a metre of the ground, but still contained some pottery and stone vases, bronze blades, seals, and ivory fragments.
Sea-lions, seals and dolphins are a source of profit.
The cave is the haunt of seals and sea birds.
Whales and seals are occasionally seen.
These agree with the more or less clear allusions in the Old Testament to myths of creation, Eden, deluge, mountain of gods, Titanic folk, world-dragons, heavenly hosts, &c., and also with the unearthed seals, tablets, altars, &c. representing mythical ideas.
They took the form of a piece of paper about an inch broad and five to eight inches long, on which was written the sum, the date of payment and the name of the payer and payee, with their seals; the paper was then torn down its length, and one half given to each party.
Great herds of seals once lay like toll-gatherers off the Golden Gate and other bays of the coast, taking a large share of the salmon and other fish; but they are no longer common.
The only other early records are seals with Hebrew inscriptions and potters' marks upon clay vessels found in Lachish and other towns.'
But, on the other hand, they largely help to clear the sea and other waters of refuse and carrion, and for fishes, seals and whales they are food desirable and often astoundingly copious.
In the second stage, implements of true bronze (9 to io% tin) become common; painted pottery of buff clay with dull black geometrical patterns appears alongside the red-ware; and foreign imports occur, such as Egyptian blue-glazed beads (XIIth-XIIIth Dynasty, 2500-2000 B.C.),1 and cylindrical Asiatic seals (one of Sargon I., 2000 B.C.).2 In the third stage, Aegean colonists introduced the Mycenaean (late Minoan) culture and industries; with new types of weapons, wheel-made pottery, and a naturalistic art which rapidly becomes conventional; gold and ivory are abundant, and glass and enamels are known.
It is significant that the first iron swords in Cyprus are of a type characteristic of the lands bordering the Adriatic. Gold and even silver become rare; 5 foreign imports almost cease; engraved cylinders and scarabs are replaced by conical and pyramidal seals like those of Asia Minor, and dress-pins by brooches (fibulae) like those of south-eastern Europe.
The common and grey seals are met with in the neighbouring seas, and Phoca foetida is confined to the Baltic. Among birds by far' the greater proportion is migrant.
It has a pocket-hole on either side, giving access to the pockets, which are always in the arkhalik, where also is the breast-pocket in which watch, money, jewels, and seals are kept.
They were to issue regulations for the proper construction of houses and villages, to exercise an active censorship over published price-lists and printed notes of invitation and visiting cards, as well as seals and rubber stamps.
It got its name (robben, Dutch for seal) from the seals which formerly frequented it, now only occasional visitants.
It is first mentioned by an English seaman named Raymond, who states that in 1591 seals and penguins were there in large numbers.
Whales, walruses, various seals and dolphins are frequently met with.
After the collapse of that company a secret committee of inquiry was appointed by the Commons, and Aislabie, who had in the meantime resigned the seals of his office, was declared guilty of having encouraged and promoted the South Sea scheme with a view to his own exorbitant profit, and was expelled the House.
The heroism of Wolfe would have been irrepressible, Clive would have proved himself "a heaven-born general," and Frederick the Great would have written his name in history as one of the most skilful strategists the world has known, whoever had held the seals of office in England.
It is commonly employed in medieval seals, and especially those of bishops and monastic establishments.
See Seals (disambiguation) for articles sharing the title Seals.