Sick"ly , v. t. To make sick or
sickly; -- with over, and probably only in the past participle. [R.]
Sicklied o'er with the pale cast
of thought.
Shak. Sentiments sicklied over . . . with that cloying heaviness into which unvaried sweetness is too apt to subside.
Jeffrey.
Sick"ly , adv. In
a sick manner or condition; ill.
My people sickly [with ill will] beareth our marriage.
Chaucer.
Sick"ly (?), a.
[Compar. Sicklier (?); superl.
Sickliest.]
1. Somewhat sick; disposed to illness; attended with disease; as, a
sickly body.
This physic but prolongs thy sickly days.
Shak.
2. Producing, or tending to, disease; as, a sickly autumn; a sickly climate. Cowper.
3. Appearing as if sick; weak;
languid; pale.
The moon grows
sickly at the sight of
day.
Dryden. Nor torrid summer's sickly smile.
Keble. 4. Tending to
produce nausea; sickening; as, a sickly smell; sickly sentimentality.
Syn. -- Diseased; ailing;
infirm; weakly; unhealthy;
healthless; weak; feeble; languid; faint.
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