unseel

From Middle English unsele, from Old English unsǣle, from Proto-Germanic *unsēliz, from *un- + *sēliz, equivalent to un- +‎ seel.

• IPA^(key): /ʌnˈsiːl/
• Homophone: unseal

unseel (third-person singular simple present unseels, present participle unseeling, simple past and past participle unseeled)

1. (obsolete) To unstitch the seeled eyes of a hawk.
2. (obsolete, figurative, by extension) To give light to; to enlighten.
   • 1610 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Alchemist, London: […] Thomas Snodham, for Walter Burre, and are to be sold by Iohn Stepneth, […], published 1612, →OCLC, (please specify the Internet Archive page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     Are your eyes yet unseel'd

• “unseel”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.