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Webster 1913 Edition


Sickness

Sick′ness

,
Noun.
[AS.
seócness
.]
1.
The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; sisease or malady.
I do lament the
sickness
of the king.
Shakespeare
Trust not too much your now resistless charms;
Those, age or
sickness
soon or late disarms.
Pope.
2.
Nausea; qualmishness;
as,
sickness
of stomach
.
Syn. – Illness; disease; malady. See
Illness
.

Webster 1828 Edition


Sickness

SICK'NESS

,
Noun.
1.
Nausea; squeamishness; as sickness of the stomach.
2.
State of being diseased. I do lament the sickness of the king.
3.
Disease; malady; a morbid state of the body of an animal or plant, in which the organs do not perfectly perform their natural functions. Trust not too much your now resistless charms; Those age or sickness soon or late disarms. Himself took our infirmities, and bore our sicknesses. Matt 8.