Found 3 hits - Term: sick bay, Database: *, Strategy: prefix
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
sick \sick\, a. compar. sicker; superl. sickest. oe. sek,
sik, ill, as. se'oc; 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.
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simon's wife's mother lay sick of a fever. --mark i.
30.
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behold them that are sick with famine. --jer. xiv.
18.
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2. affected with, or attended by, nausea; inclined to vomit;
as, sick at the stomach; a sick headache.
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3. having a strong dislike; disgusted; surfeited; -- with of;
as, to be sick of flattery.
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he was not so sick of his master as of his work.
--l'estrange.
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4. corrupted; imperfect; impaired; weakned.
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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.
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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.
note: these terms, sick bed, sick berth, etc., are also
written both hyphened and solid.
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syn: diseased; ill; disordered; distempered; indisposed;
weak; ailing; feeble; morbid.
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see also:
sicker sickest illness sick bay sick bed sick berth
sick headache sick list sick room
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
bay \bay\, n. f. baie, fr. ll. baia. of uncertain origin: cf.
ir. gael. badh or bagh bay, harbor, creek; bisc. baia,
baiya, harbor, and f. bayer to gape, open the mouth.
1. geog. an inlet of the sea, usually smaller than a gulf,
but of the same general character.
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note: the name is not used with much precision, and is often
applied to large tracts of water, around which the land
forms a curve; as, hudson's bay. the name is not
restricted to tracts of water with a narrow entrance,
but is used for any recess or inlet between capes or
headlands; as, the bay of biscay.
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2. a small body of water set off from the main body; as a
compartment containing water for a wheel; the portion of a
canal just outside of the gates of a lock, etc.
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3. a recess or indentation shaped like a bay.
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4. a principal compartment of the walls, roof, or other part
of a building, or of the whole building, as marked off by
the buttresses, vaulting, mullions of a window, etc.; one
of the main divisions of any structure, as the part of a
bridge between two piers.
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5. a compartment in a barn, for depositing hay, or grain in
the stalks.
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6. a kind of mahogany obtained from campeachy bay.
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sick bay, in vessels of war, that part of a deck
appropriated to the use of the sick. --totten.
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see also:
sick bay
- [3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
36 moby thesaurus words for "sick bay":
va hospital, asylum, base hospital, clinic, community hospital,
convalescent home, convalescent hospital, evacuation hospital,
field hospital, general hospital, home, hospital, infirmary,
inpatient clinic, maison de sante, mental hospital, nursing home,
osteopathic hospital, outpatient clinic, policlinic, polyclinic,
private hospital, proprietary hospital, public hospital, rest home,
sanatorium, sickbed, sickroom, special hospital, station hospital,
surgical hospital, teaching hospital, veterans hospital,
voluntary hospital, ward, well-baby clinic
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