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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 companions, all of whom would have died rather than relinquish their object, would have been quickly sealed, but for a powerful and unlooked-for interposition in their favour. A shout was heard from a little brake on the left, and a volley from the fatal western rifle immediately succeeded. Some five or six Siouxes leaped forward in the death agony, ...

— The Prairie • J. Fenimore Cooper

... The sealed compartment was hardly more than a cupboard but it was full. Spread-eagled against the wall was a four-limbed creature whose form was so smothered in a bulky suit that Varta could only guess that it was akin in shape to her own. Hoops of metal locked it firmly to the wall, but ...

— The Gifts of Asti • Andre Alice Norton

... unparalleled embarrassment of a harassed pedlar when gauging the symmetry of a peeled pear." Lord DEVONPORT, occupied in deciding on the exact architecture and decoration of the Bath bun (official sealed pattern), would make a ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 152, April 4, 1917 • Various

... every topic, treated anywhere in this vast repository of human knowledge can be traced out and appropriated; while without it, the Encyclopaedia Britannica, with all its great merits, must remain very much in the nature of a sealed book to the reader who stands in need of immediate use and reference. We have to take it for what it is—a collection of masterly treatises, rather than a ...

— A Book for All Readers • Ainsworth Rand Spofford

... hour later, as Ned folded and sealed the voluminous letter, and placed upon it the long, foreign address, his brother, watching him with a curious ...

— The Award of Justice - Told in the Rockies • A. Maynard Barbour

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