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Webster 1913 Edition
Sick
Sick
,Adj.
[
Com
par.
Sicker
; sup
erl.
Sickest
.] [OE.
sek
, sik
, ill, AS. seóc
; akin to OS. siok
, seoc
, OFries. siak
, D. ziek
, G. siech
, OHG. sioh
, Icel. sj[GREEK]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
. Simon’s wife's mother lay
sick
of a fever. Mark i. 30.
Behold them that are
sick
with famine. Jer. xiv. 18.
2.
Affected with, or attended by, nausea; inclined to vomit;
as,
sick
at the stomach; a sick
headache.3.
Having a strong dislike; disgusted; surfeited; – with of;
as, to be
. sick
of flatteryHe was not so
sick
of his master as of his work. L'Estrange.
4.
Corrupted; imperfect; impaired; weakned.
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.
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.]
Syn. – Diseased; ill; disordered; distempered; indisposed; weak; ailing; feeble; morbid.
Sick
,Noun.
Sickness.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.
Sick
,Verb.
I.
To fall sick; to sicken.
[Obs.]
Shak.
Webster 1828 Edition
Sick
SICK
,Adj.
1. Affected with nausea; inclined to vomit; as, sick at the stomach. [This is probably the primary sense of the word.] Hence,
2. Disgusted; having a strong dislike to; with of; as, to be sick of flattery; to be sick of a country life.
He was not so sick of his master as of his work. L'Estrange.
3. Affected with a disease of any kind; not in health; followed by of; as to be sick of a fever.
4. Corrupted. [Not in use nor proper.]
5. The sick, the person or persons affected with the disease. The sick are healed.
SICK
,Verb.
T.