Sick

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 ]