Lexic.us

Definition of Sealing

1. Noun. The act of treating something to make it repel water.

Definition of Sealing

1. Adjective. Used for closing securely. ¹

2. Verb. (present participle of seal) ¹

3. Noun. Action of the verb '''to seal''' in any sense. ¹

4. Verb. (present participle of seal) ¹

5. Noun. Hunting of seals (''the animals''). ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sealing

1. seal [v] - See also: seal

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sealing

Literary usage of Sealing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. State Responses to Serious & Violent Juvenile Crime by Patricia Torbet, Richard Gable, Imogene Montgomery (1996)
"sealing/Expungement of Juvenile Court Records Most legislatures have made provisions for disposing of a juvenile's legal or social record. ..."

2. New America by William Hepworth Dixon (1867)
"sealing. MUCH confusion comes upon us from the use of this word sealing in the English sense ... sealing may mean marriage; it may also mean something else. ..."

3. New America by William Hepworth Dixon (1867)
"sealing. MUCH confusion comes upon us from the use of this word sealing in ... sealing may mean a great deal more, and it may mean a great deal less than ..."

4. Seal and Salmon Fisheries and General Resources of Alaska by Henry Wood Elliott, Washburn Maynard, Sheldon Jackson, David Starr Jordan, United States Dept. of the Treasury. Special Agents Division, Leonhard Hess Stejneger, William Gouverneur Morris, Ivan Petroff, Charles Haskins Townsend, Frederick William True, (1898)
"A portion of the sealing fleet at Sand Point, Alaska, in June, 1893. ... Canadian sealing schooner Katherine, formerly Black Diamond. ..."

5. Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Francis Lieber, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1832)
"The Romans were acquainted with sealing-earth, and used also clay and common wax, which has been employed for sealing, in Europe, since the earliest times; ..."

6. Roscoe's Digest of the Law of Evidence on the Trial of Actions at Nisi Prius by Henry Roscoe, Maurice Powell (1884)
"Per Bull er, J., Adam v. Kerr, 1 B. & P. 361. And where the " signing and sealing" are alone noticed in the attestation, yet this is evidence of the ..."

7. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1899)
"Washington : The sealing treaty between the United States, Russia, ... Washington : Conference between the sealing experts of the United States, ..."

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