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Seal :: Seal (v. t.) 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..

Gules :: Gules (n.) The tincture red, indicated in seals and engraved figures of escutcheons by parallel vertical lines. Hence, used poetically for a red color or that which is red..

Epiphyseal :: Epiphyseal () Alt. of Epiphysia.

Ursal :: Ursal (n.) The ursine seal. See the Note under 1st Seal.

Sea Elephant :: Sea elephant () A very large seal (Macrorhinus proboscideus) of the Antarctic seas, much hunted for its oil. It sometimes attains a length of thirty feet, and is remarkable for the prolongation of the nose of the adult male into an erectile elastic proboscis, about a foot in length. Another species of smaller size (M. angustirostris) occurs on the coast of Lower California, but is now nearly extinct..

Hoodcap :: Hoodcap (n.) See Hooded seal, under Hooded..

Breve :: Breve (n.) Any writ or precept under seal, issued out of any court..

Deed :: Deed (v. t.) A sealed instrument in writing, on paper or parchment, duly executed and delivered, containing some transfer, bargain, or contract..

Cocket :: Cocket (n.) A customhouse seal; a certified document given to a shipper as a warrant that his goods have been duly entered and have paid duty.

Roseal :: Roseal (a.) resembling a rose in smell or color.

Unkiss :: Unkiss (v. t.) To cancel or annul what was done or sealed by a kiss; to cancel by a kiss.

Bulla :: Bulla (n.) A leaden seal for a document; esp. the round leaden seal attached to the papal bulls, which has on one side a representation of St. Peter and St. Paul, and on the other the name of the pope who uses it..

Sealer :: Sealer (n.) A mariner or a vessel engaged in the business of capturing seals.

Appendant :: Appendant (v. t.) Hanging; annexed; adjunct; concomitant; as, a seal appendant to a paper..

Covenant :: Covenant (n.) A form of action for the violation of a promise or contract under seal.

Sigillum :: Sigillum (n.) A seal.

Recognizance :: Recognizance (n.) An obligation of record entered into before some court of record or magistrate duly authorized, with condition to do some particular act, as to appear at the same or some other court, to keep the peace, or pay a debt. A recognizance differs from a bond, being witnessed by the record only, and not by the party's seal..

Pup :: Pup (n.) a young seal.

Bull :: Bull (v. i.) A letter, edict, or respect, of the pope, written in Gothic characters on rough parchment, sealed with a bulla, and dated a die Incarnationis, i. e., from the day of the Incarnation. See Apostolical brief, under Brief..

Vermilion :: Vermilion (n.) A bright red pigment consisting of mercuric sulphide, obtained either from the mineral cinnabar or artificially. It has a fine red color, and is much used in coloring sealing wax, in printing, etc..

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