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- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
sicker \sick"er\, v. i. as. sicerian. mining
to percolate, trickle, or ooze, as water through a crack.
also written sigger, zigger, and zifhyr. prov. eng.
1913 webster sicker
see also:
sigger zigger zifhyr
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
sicker \sick"er\, siker \sik"er\, a. oe. siker; cf. os. sikur,
lg. seker, d. zeker, dan. sikker, ohg. sihhur, g. sicher; all
fr. l. securus. see secure, sure.
sure; certain; trusty. obs. or prov. eng. scot. --burns.
1913 webster
when he is siker of his good name. --chaucer.
1913 webster sicker
see also:
secure sure
- [3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
sicker \sick"er\, siker \sik"er\, adv.
surely; certainly. obs.
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believe this as siker as your creed. --chaucer.
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sicker, willye, thou warnest well. --spenser.
1913 webster sickerly
- [4] : 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.
1913 webster
syn: diseased; ill; disordered; distempered; indisposed;
weak; ailing; feeble; morbid.
1913 webster
see also:
sicker sickest illness sick bay sick bed sick berth
sick headache sick list sick room
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