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Seal v. t. (past & past part. sealed; pres. part. sealing)

To set or affix a seal to; hence, to authenticate; to confirm; to ratify; to establish; as, to seal a deed. "And with my hand I seal my true heart's love."

To mark with a stamp, as an evidence of standard exactness, legal size, or merchantable quality; as, to seal weights and measures; to seal silverware.

To fasten with a seal; to attach together with a wafer, wax, or other substance causing adhesion; as, to seal a letter.

Hence, to shut close; to keep close; to make fast; to keep secure or secret. "Seal up your lips, and give no words but "mum"."

To fix, as a piece of iron in a wall, with cement, plaster, or the like.

To close by means of a seal; as, to seal a drainpipe with water. See 2d Seal, 5.

Among the Mormons, to confirm or set apart as a second or additional wife. (Utah, U.S.) "If a man once married desires a second helpmate... she is sealed to him under the solemn sanction of the church."

Seal v. i. To affix one's seal, or a seal. (Obs.) "I will seal unto this bond."

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"Sealed" Quotes from Famous Books

... his wife, and she declared for opening it. It was sealed, and addressed to another person; but to let such an informality as opening another's letters stand in the way of knowing what was going on around them would have been foreign to the nature of Presidio activities. This ...

— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VII. (of X.) • Various

... in slumbers ending never, Gloomy death had sealed thine eyes, Thou hadst lived in memory ever— Thou hadst lived still in my sighs; But, alas! in light thou livest— To my ...

— The Works of Frederich Schiller in English • Frederich Schiller

... asleep. She saw that it was idle to insist, and went away, saying that she should send a man the next morning to fetch the box. In the morning the man came, offering fifty Louis to the commissary on behalf of the marquise, if he would give her the box. But he replied that the box was in the sealed room, that it would have to be opened, and that if the objects claimed by the marquise were really hers, they would be safely handed over to her. This reply struck the marquise like a thunderbolt. There was no time to be lost: hastily she removed from the rue ...

— CELEBRATED CRIMES, COMPLETE - THE MARQUISE DE BRINVILLIERS • ALEXANDRE DUMAS, PERE

... determined to try some other method; and when some English ships came to Boston, laden with tea, they mustered their forces, unloaded and threw it into the dock, and thereby laid the foundation of their future independence, although it was in a terrible war, that your fathers sealed with their blood a covenant made with liberty. And now we ask the good people of Massachusetts, the boasted cradle of independence, whom we have petitioned for a redress of wrongs, more grievous ...

— Indian Nullification of the Unconstitutional Laws of Massachusetts - Relative to the Marshpee Tribe: or, The Pretended Riot Explained • William Apes

... able to lay down ready money for all the goods that are in your ships; and to begin, if you will give me those that happen to come in the first ship that arrives in safety, I will pay you down, in part payment, a thousand sequins. Drawing out a bag from under his gown, he showed it him sealed up with one seal. ...

— The Arabian Nights Entertainments Volume 1 • Anonymous

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