Syn. — Diseased; ailing; infirm; weakly; unhealthy; healthless; weak; feeble; languid; faint.
SICKLY
Sick"ly, adv.
Defn: In a sick manner or condition; ill.
My people sickly [with ill will] beareth our marriage. Chaucer.
SICKLY
Sick"ly, v. t.
Defn: 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.
SICKNESS
Sick"ness, n. Etym: [AS. seócness.]
1. The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; sisease or malady. I do lament the sickness of the king. Shak. 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.
SICLE
Si"cle, n. Etym: [F., fr. L. silcus, Heb. shegel. See Shekel.]