" seals "

[Noun]  | "seal" | \ ˈsēl \

1: any of numerous carnivorous marine mammals (families Phocidae and Otariidae) that live chiefly in cold regions and have limbs modified into webbed flippers adapted primarily to swimming; especially : a fur seal or hair seal as opposed to a sea lion

2: the pelt of a fur seal

3: leather made from the skin of a seal

Origin: before 12th century ;

 Middle English sele, from Old English seolh; akin to Old High German selah seal;

[Noun]  | "seal" 

1: something that confirms, ratifies, or makes secure : guarantee, assurance

2: a device with a cut or raised emblem, symbol, or word used especially to certify a signature or authenticate a document

3: a medallion or ring face bearing such a device incised so that it can be impressed on wax or moist clay; also : a piece of wax or a wafer bearing such an impression

Origin: 13th century ;

 Middle English sele, see:l, from Anglo-French seal, sel, from Latin sigillum seal, from diminutive of signum sign, seal {mat|sign|};

[Noun]  | "bearded seal" 

1: a large arctic hair seal (Erignathus barbatus) with a tuft of long whiskers on each side of the muzzle

Origin: 1819 ;

[Noun]  | "crab*eat*er seal" | \ ˈkrab-ˌē-tər- \

1: an Antarctic hair seal (Lobodon carcinophaga) that feeds on krill and lives and breeds on pack ice —called also crabeater

Origin: 1913 ;

[Noun]  | "cylinder seal" 

1: a cylinder (as of stone) engraved in intaglio and used especially in ancient Mesopotamia to roll an impression on wet clay

Origin: 1887 ;

[Noun]  | "eared seal" 

1: any of a family (Otariidae) of seals including the sea lions and fur seals and having independent mobile hind flippers and small well-developed external ears

Origin: circa 1808 ;

[Noun]  | "elephant seal" 

1: either of two very large seals (genus Mirounga of the family Phocidae) characterized by a long inflatable proboscis:

2: one (M. angustirostris) found in Pacific coastal waters from southeastern Alaska to Baja California

3: one (M. leonina) found in coastal waters of subantarctic islands and Patagonia

Origin: 1839 ;

[Noun]  | "fur seal" 

1: any of various eared seals that have a double coat with a dense soft underfur and were hunted especially formerly for their desirable pelts:

2: a large seal (Callorhinus ursinus) of the northern Pacific Ocean having its main breeding rookery on Pribilof Island in the Bering Sea —called also northern fur seal

3: any of a genus (Arctocephalus) of seals chiefly of the southern hemisphere —called also southern fur seal

Origin: 1775 ;

[Verb]  | "seal" 

1: to hunt seals

Origin: 1828 ;

[Verb]  | "seal" 

1: to confirm or make secure by or as if by a seal

2: to solemnize (something, such as a marriage) for eternity by a Mormon rite

3: to set or affix an authenticating seal to; also : authenticate, ratify

Origin: 14th century ;

[Verb]  | "seals" 

[Noun]  | "seals" 

[Noun]  | "seal"