Emily Dickinson Lexicon

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.

SI-CIL'IAN-VES'PERS, n.

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.]

1. Affected with nausea; inclined to vomit; as, sick at the stomach. [This is probably the sense of the word.] Hence,
2. 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.
3. Affected with disease of any kind; not in health; followed by of; as, to be sick of a fever.
4. Corrupted. [Not in use nor proper.] – Shak.
5. 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.

1. To become sick; to fall into disease. The judges that sat upon the jail, and those that attended, sickened upon it and died. Bacon.
2. To be satiated; to be filled to disgust. – Shak.
3. To become disgusting or tedious. The toiling pleasure sickens into pain. – Goldsmith.
4. To be disgusted; to be filled with aversion or abhorrence. He sickened at the sight of so much human misery.
5. 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.]

1. To make sick; to disease. Raise this to strength, and sicken that to death. – Prior.
2. To make squeamish. It sickens the stomach.
3. To disgust. It sickens one to hear the fawning sycophant.
4. To impair. [Not in use.] – Shak.

SICK'EN-ED, pp.

Made sick.

SICK'EN-ING, ppr.

1. Becoming sick; making sick.
2. 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.]

1. Somewhat sick or diseased. – Hakewill.
2. 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.

SICK'LE-MAN, or SICK'LER, n.

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.]

1. The state of being sickly; the state of being habitually diseased; applied to persons.
2. The state of producing sickness extensively; as, the sickliness of a season.
3. The disposition to generate disease extensively; as, the sickliness of a climate.

SICK'-LIST, n.

A list containing the names of the sick.