Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: SICH – SICK'-LIST
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SICH, a. [for Such. See Such.]
– Chaucer.
SIC-IL-I-A-NO, n.
In music, a composition in measure of 6/4 or 6/8 to be performed in a slow and graceful manner.
In history, the name of the great massacre of the French in Sicily, in 1282, on the evening of Easter Tuesday.
SICK, a. [Sax. seoc; D. zieck; Sw. siuk; Ice. syke. Qu. Gr. σικχος, squeamish, lothing.]
- Affected with nausea; inclined to vomit; as, sick at the stomach. [This is probably the sense of the word.] Hence,
- Disgusted; having a strong dislike to; with of; to be sick of flattery; to be sick of a country life. He was not so sick of his master as of his work. – L'Estrange.
- Affected with disease of any kind; not in health; followed by of; as, to be sick of a fever.
- Corrupted. [Not in use nor proper.] – Shak.
- The sick, the person or persons affected with disease. The sick are healed.
SICK, v.t.
To make sick. [Not in use. See Sicken.]
SICK'BERTH, n.
In a ship of war, an apartment for the sick.
SICK'-BRAIN-ED, a.
Disordered in the brain.
SICK'EN, v.i.
- To become sick; to fall into disease. The judges that sat upon the jail, and those that attended, sickened upon it and died. Bacon.
- To be satiated; to be filled to disgust. – Shak.
- To become disgusting or tedious. The toiling pleasure sickens into pain. – Goldsmith.
- To be disgusted; to be filled with aversion or abhorrence. He sickened at the sight of so much human misery.
- To become weak; to decay; to languish. Plants often sicken and die. All pleasures sicken, and all glories sink. – Pope.
SICK-EN, v.t. [sik'n.]
- To make sick; to disease. Raise this to strength, and sicken that to death. – Prior.
- To make squeamish. It sickens the stomach.
- To disgust. It sickens one to hear the fawning sycophant.
- To impair. [Not in use.] – Shak.
SICK'EN-ED, pp.
Made sick.
SICK'EN-ING, ppr.
- Becoming sick; making sick.
- Disgusting.
SICK'ER, a. [L. securus; Dan. sikker; G. sicher; D. zeker.]
Sure; certain; firm. [Obs.] – Spenser.
SICKER, adv.
Surely; certainly. [Obs.] – Spenser.
SICK'ER-LY, adv.
Surely. [Obs.]
SICK'ER-NESS, n.
Security. [Obs.] – Spenser.
SICK'ISH, a. [from sick.]
- Somewhat sick or diseased. – Hakewill.
- Exciting disgust; nauseating; as, a sickish taste.
SICK'ISH-LY, adv.
In a sickish manner.
SICK'ISH-NESS, n.
The quality of exciting disgust.
SICK-LE, n. [sik'l; Sax. sicel, sicol; G. sichel; D. zikkel, Gr. ζαικλη, ζαγκλον; L. sicula, from the root of seco, to cut.]
A reaping-hook; a hooked instrument with teeth; used for cutting grain. Thou shalt not move a sickle to thy neighbor's standing corn. – Deut. xxiii.
SICK'LED, a.
Furnished with a sickle. – Thomson.
One that uses a sickle; a reaper. [Not used in New England.] – Shak.
SICK'LE-SHAP-ED, a.
Shaped like a sickle.
SICK'LE-WORT, n.
A plant of the genus Coronilla.
SICK'LI-NESS, n. [from sickly.]
- The state of being sickly; the state of being habitually diseased; applied to persons.
- The state of producing sickness extensively; as, the sickliness of a season.
- The disposition to generate disease extensively; as, the sickliness of a climate.
SICK'-LIST, n.
A list containing the names of the sick.