adv. In a brainsick manner. [ 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. ]
When corn has once felt the sickle, it has no more benefit from the sunshine. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
Sickle pod (Bot.),
n. (Zool.)
a. Furnished with a sickle. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.;
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. Made sickly. See Sickly, v. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality or state of being sickly. [ 1913 Webster ]
a.
This physic but prolongs thy sickly days. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
The moon grows sickly at the sight of day. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
Nor torrid summer's sickly smile. Keble. [ 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 ]