• SEAL

1. s. A sea-calf, Vid.

2.

• s. PROP., Impression, signum: sigillum. To break a seal, resignare.
• A stamp, *forma qua signatoria utimur. A seal ring, annulus quo signatorio utimur (Valerius Max., 8, 14, 4).
• Figuratively, fides. To tell a thing to anybody under the seal of secrecy, taciturnitati et fidei alicujus clam concredere aliquid (Vid: Plaut., Trin., 1, 2, 104; not, as Ruhnken writes, dicere alicui aliquid sub fide silentii, which is not Latin). I tell you this under the seal of secrecy, hoc tibi soli dictum puta; haec tu tecum habeto; hoc tibi in aurem dixerim; hoc lapidi dixerim (☞ not sub rosa tibi hoc dixerim).

3. v. signare: consignare (☞ not subsignare in this sense): obsignare (to seal up): signo imprimere aliquid: sigillum imprimere in re (to imprint the mark of a seal; e.g., in cera, on wax). To seal despatches, signo suo tabellas imprimere: to seal a letter, litteris sigillum imprimere: sealed up, obsignatus