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&unr_;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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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 ]

2. Affected with, or attended by, nausea; inclined to vomit; as, sick at the stomach; a sick headache. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Having a strong dislike; disgusted; surfeited; -- with of; as, to be sick of flattery. [ 1913 Webster ]

He was not so sick of his master as of his work. L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Corrupted; imperfect; impaired; weakned. [ 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.), 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. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Diseased; ill; disordered; distempered; indisposed; weak; ailing; feeble; morbid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Sickness. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To fall sick; to sicken. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Disordered in the brain. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To become sick; to fall into disease. [ 1913 Webster ]

The judges that sat upon the jail, and those that attended, sickened upon it and died. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To be filled to disgust; to be disgusted or nauseated; to be filled with abhorrence or aversion; to be surfeited or satiated. [ 1913 Webster ]

Mine eyes did sicken at the sight. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To become disgusting or tedious. [ 1913 Webster ]

The toiling pleasure sickens into pain. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To become weak; to decay; to languish. [ 1913 Webster ]

All pleasures sicken, and all glories sink. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Sickened p. pr. & vb. n. Sickening. ] 1. To make sick; to disease. [ 1913 Webster ]

Raise this strength, and sicken that to death. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To make qualmish; to nauseate; to disgust; as, to sicken the stomach. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To impair; to weaken. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Causing sickness; specif., causing surfeit or disgust; nauseating. -- Sick"en*ing*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

v. i. [ AS. sicerian. ] (Mining) To percolate, trickle, or ooze, as water through a crack. [ Also written sigger, zigger, and zifhyr. ] [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Somewhat sick or diseased. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Somewhat sickening; as, a sickish taste. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Sick"ish*ly, adv. -- Sick"ish*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. ] 1. A reaping instrument consisting of a steel blade curved into the form of a hook, and having a handle fitted on a tang. The sickle has one side of the blade notched, so as always to sharpen with a serrated edge. Cf. Reaping hook, under Reap. [ 1913 Webster ]

When corn has once felt the sickle, it has no more benefit from the sunshine. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Astron.) A group of stars in the constellation Leo. See Illust. of Leo. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sickle pod (Bot.), a kind of rock cress (Arabis Canadensis) having very long curved pods. [ 1913 Webster ]