Sick (?), a. [Compar. Sicker (?); superl. Sickest.] [OE. sek, sik, ill, AS. seoc; akin to OS. siok, seoc, OFries. siak, D. ziek, G. siech, OHG. sioh, Icel. sjkr, 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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Sick, n.
Sickness.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.
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Sick, v. i.
To fall sick; to sicken.
[Obs.]
Shak.
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