*sick*

a. Affected with air sickness or aërial sickness; feeling nauseous due to riding in an airplane. -- Air"sick`ness, n. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

. A vomiting or nauseous feeling similar to seasickness experienced by passengers in aircraft; -- it is caused by motion and distinguished from the effects of low air pressure, as it may also occur in the pressurized cabins of large aircraft. [ PJC ]

a. Disordered in the understanding; giddy; thoughtless. -- Brain"sick*ness, n. [1913 Webster]

adv. In a brainsick manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. feeling nauseous due to the movement of a car or other land vehicle; -- similar to airsick and seasick. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Sick from excess in eating or drinking. [ Obs. ] “Cropsick drunkards.” Tate. -- Crop"sick`ness, n. [Obs.] Whitlock. [1913 Webster]

a. Sick as a dog sometimes is very sick. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Love-sick. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ Dial. E. fossick, fossuck, a troublesome person, fussick to potter over one's work, fussock to bustle about; of uncertain origin. Cf. Fuss. ] 1. (Mining) To search for gold by picking at stone or earth or among roots in isolated spots, picking over abandoned workings, etc.; hence, to steal gold or auriferous matter from another's claim. [ Australia ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. To search about; to rummage.

A man who has fossicked in nature's byways. D. Macdonald. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Made sick by consciousness of guilt. “A guilt-sick conscience.” Beau. & Fl.
Syn. -- guilt-ridden. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ AS. heortiseóc. ] Sick at heart; extremely depressed in spirits; very despondent. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pining for home; in a nostalgic condition. -- Home"sick`ness, n. [1913 Webster]

a. (Naut.) Having the ironwork loose or corroded; -- said of a ship when her bolts and nails are so eaten with rust that she has become leaky. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Naut.) The the process of deterioration afflicting a ship that is iron-sick. [ PJC ]

a. 1. Languishing with love or amorous desire; as, a love-sick maid. [ 1913 Webster ]

To the dear mistress of my love-sick mind. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Originating in, or expressive of, languishing love. [ 1913 Webster ]

Where nightingales their love-sick ditty sing. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being love-sick. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Veter., Med.) A peculiar malignant disease, occurring in parts of the western United States, and affecting certain kinds of farm stock (esp. cows), and persons using the meat or dairy products of infected cattle. Its chief symptoms in man are uncontrollable vomiting, obstinate constipation, pain, and muscular tremors. Its origin in cattle has been variously ascribed to the presence of certain plants in their food, and to polluted water. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Having phthisis, or some symptom of it, as difficulty in breathing. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. pr. & vb. n. fr. Physic, v. t. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Affected with seasickness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The peculiar sickness, characterized by nausea and prostration, which is caused by the pitching or rolling of a vessel. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Compar. Sicker superl. Sickest. ] [ OE. sek, sik, ill, AS. seóc; akin to OS. siok, seoc, OFries. siak, D. ziek, G. siech, OHG. sioh, Icel. sj&unr_;kr, Sw. sjuk, Dan. syg, Goth. siuks ill, siukan to be ill. ] 1. Affected with disease of any kind; ill; indisposed; not in health. See the Synonym under Illness. [ 1913 Webster ]

Simon's wife's mother lay sick of a fever. Mark i. 30. [ 1913 Webster ]

Behold them that are sick with famine. Jer. xiv. 18. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Affected with, or attended by, nausea; inclined to vomit; as, sick at the stomach; a sick headache. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Having a strong dislike; disgusted; surfeited; -- with of; as, to be sick of flattery. [ 1913 Webster ]

He was not so sick of his master as of his work. L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Corrupted; imperfect; impaired; weakned. [ 1913 Webster ]

So great is his antipathy against episcopacy, that, if a seraphim himself should be a bishop, he would either find or make some sick feathers in his wings. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sick bay (Naut.), an apartment in a vessel, used as the ship's hospital. --
Sick bed, the bed upon which a person lies sick. --
Sick berth, an apartment for the sick in a ship of war. --
Sick headache (Med.), a variety of headache attended with disorder of the stomach and nausea. --
Sick list, a list containing the names of the sick. --
Sick room, a room in which a person lies sick, or to which he is confined by sickness. [ These terms, sick bed, sick berth, etc., are also written both hyphened and solid. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Diseased; ill; disordered; distempered; indisposed; weak; ailing; feeble; morbid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Sickness. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To fall sick; to sicken. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Disordered in the brain. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Sickened p. pr. & vb. n. Sickening. ] 1. To make sick; to disease. [ 1913 Webster ]

Raise this strength, and sicken that to death. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To make qualmish; to nauseate; to disgust; as, to sicken the stomach. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To impair; to weaken. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To become sick; to fall into disease. [ 1913 Webster ]

The judges that sat upon the jail, and those that attended, sickened upon it and died. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To be filled to disgust; to be disgusted or nauseated; to be filled with abhorrence or aversion; to be surfeited or satiated. [ 1913 Webster ]

Mine eyes did sicken at the sight. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To become disgusting or tedious. [ 1913 Webster ]

The toiling pleasure sickens into pain. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To become weak; to decay; to languish. [ 1913 Webster ]

All pleasures sicken, and all glories sink. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Causing sickness; specif., causing surfeit or disgust; nauseating. -- Sick"en*ing*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

v. i. [ AS. sicerian. ] (Mining) To percolate, trickle, or ooze, as water through a crack. [ Also written sigger, zigger, and zifhyr. ] [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Somewhat sick or diseased. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Somewhat sickening; as, a sickish taste. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Sick"ish*ly, adv. -- Sick"ish*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. sikel, AS. sicol; akin to D. sikkel, G. sichel, OHG. sihhila, Dan. segel, segl, L. secula, fr. secare to cut; or perhaps from L. secula. See Saw a cutting instrument. ] 1. A reaping instrument consisting of a steel blade curved into the form of a hook, and having a handle fitted on a tang. The sickle has one side of the blade notched, so as always to sharpen with a serrated edge. Cf. Reaping hook, under Reap. [ 1913 Webster ]

When corn has once felt the sickle, it has no more benefit from the sunshine. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Astron.) A group of stars in the constellation Leo. See Illust. of Leo. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sickle pod (Bot.), a kind of rock cress (Arabis Canadensis) having very long curved pods. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) (a) Any one of three species of humming birds of the genus Eutoxeres, native of Central and South America. They have a long and strongly curved bill. Called also the sickle-billed hummer. (b) A curlew. (c) A bird of the genus Epimachus and allied genera. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Furnished with a sickle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Sicklemen One who uses a sickle; a reaper. [ 1913 Webster ]

You sunburned sicklemen, of August weary. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who uses a sickle; a sickleman; a reaper. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Free from sickness. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Give me long breath, young beds, and sickless ease. Marston. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. sicolwyrt. ] (Bot.) (a) A plant of the genus Coronilla (Coronilla scorpioides); -- so named from its curved pods. (b) The healall (Brunella vulgaris). [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Made sickly. See Sickly, v. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being sickly. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Compar. Sicklier superl. Sickliest. ] 1. Somewhat sick; disposed to illness; attended with disease; as, a sickly body. [ 1913 Webster ]

This physic but prolongs thy sickly days. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Producing, or tending to, disease; as, a sickly autumn; a sickly climate. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Appearing as if sick; weak; languid; pale. [ 1913 Webster ]

The moon grows sickly at the sight of day. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nor torrid summer's sickly smile. Keble. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Tending to produce nausea; sickening; as, a sickly smell; sickly sentimentality. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Diseased; ailing; infirm; weakly; unhealthy; healthless; weak; feeble; languid; faint. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a sick manner or condition; ill. [ 1913 Webster ]

My people sickly [ with ill will ] beareth our marriage. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To make sick or sickly; -- with over, and probably only in the past participle. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sentiments sicklied over . . . with that cloying heaviness into which unvaried sweetness is too apt to subside. Jeffrey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. seócness. ] 1. The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; sisease or malady. [ 1913 Webster ]

I do lament the sickness of the king. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Trust not too much your now resistless charms;
Those, age or sickness soon or late disarms. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Illness; disease; malady. See Illness. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ }, a. [ OE. siker; cf. OS. sikur, LG. seker, D. zeker, Dan. sikker, OHG. sihhur, G. sicher; all fr. L. securus. See Secure, Sure. ] Sure; certain; trusty. [ Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot. ] Burns. [ 1913 Webster ]

When he is siker of his good name. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ }, adv. Surely; certainly. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Believe this as siker as your creed. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sicker, Willye, thou warnest well. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ }, adv. Surely; securely. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

But sikerly, withouten any fable. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ }, n. The quality or state of being sicker, or certain. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a group of symptoms, prominently nausea, but sometimes including lethargy, headache, and sweating, occuring under the weightless conditions of space flight. [ RHUD ] [ PJC ]