Category:Sick

Sick, a. [compar. Sicker; superl. Sickest.] Etym: [oe. sek, sik, ill, As. seóc; akin to os. siok, seoc, ofries. siak, d. ziek, g. siech, Ohg. sioh, icel. sj, 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.

Note: [these terms, sick bed, sick berth, etc., are also written both hyphened and solid.]

Syn. -- diseased; ill; disordered; distempered; indisposed; weak; ailing; feeble; morbid.

Sick Sick, n.

Defn: sickness. [obs.] Chaucer.

Sick Sick, v. i.

Defn: to fall sick; to sicken. [obs.] Shak.