Sick (?), a. [Compar.
Sicker (?); superl. Sickest.] [OE.
sek, sik, ill, AS. seóc; akin to OS.
siok, seoc, OFries. siak, D. ziek, G.
siech, OHG. sioh, Icel. sj?kr, 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.
[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, v. i. To fall sick; to
sicken. [Obs.] Shak.
Sick, n. Sickness. [Obs.]
Chaucer.