Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SICK'NESS, n. [G. sucht.]

1. Nausea; squeamishness; as, sickness of the stomach.
2. State of being diseased. I do lament the sickness of the king. – Shak.
3. Disease, malady; a morbid state of the body of an animal or plant, in which the organs do not perfectly perform their natural functions. Trust not too much your now resistless charms; / Those age or sickness soon or late disarms. – Pope. Himself took our infirmities, and bore our sicknesses. – Matth. viii.