Sick , v. i. To fall sick; to
sicken. [Obs.]
Shak.
Sick , n. Sickness. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
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&?;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 flattery.
He 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.
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