a.
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 ]
He was not so sick of his master as of his work. L'Estrange. [ 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.),
Sick bed,
Sick berth,
Sick headache (Med.),
Sick list,
Sick room,
v. i. To fall sick; to sicken. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Sickness. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Disordered in the brain. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. i.
The judges that sat upon the jail, and those that attended, sickened upon it and died. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]
Mine eyes did sicken at the sight. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
The toiling pleasure sickens into pain. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]
All pleasures sicken, and all glories sink. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
Raise this strength, and sicken that to death. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Causing sickness; specif., causing surfeit or disgust; nauseating. --
v. i. [ AS. sicerian. ] (Mining) To percolate, trickle, or ooze, as water through a crack.
a.
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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.),