sick

Definitions

1. 1.Behold them that are sick with famine. Jer. xiv.
2. 2.2. Affected with, or attended by, nausea; inclined to vomit; as, sick at the stomach; a sick headache.
3. 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. 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. Note: [These terms, sick bed, sick berth, etc., are also written both hyphened and solid.]
5. 5.Sickness. [Obs.] Chaucer.
6. 6.To fall sick; to sicken. [Obs.] Shak.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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• What is behold them that are sick with famine. Jer. xiv called?
• What is 2. Affected with, or attended by, nausea; inclined to vomit; as, sick at the stomach; a sick headache called?
• What is 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 called?