Emily Dickinson Lexicon

ILL, n.

1. Wickedness; depravity; evil. Strong virtue, like strong nature, struggles still, / Exerts itself and then throws off the ill. Dryden.
2. Misfortune; calamity; evil; disease; pain; whatever annoys or impairs happiness, or prevents success. Who can all sense of other's ills escape, / Is but a brute at best in human shape. Tate.