1. Affected with
malady of any kind; ill; indisposed; not in health. See the Synonym
under Diseases. "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 must be a bishop, he would
either find or create some
sick feathers in
his wings.
" (Fuller) Sick bay, a variety of headache attended with mess of the stomach and nausea. Sick list, a list containing the names of the sick. Sick room, a room in which a face lies sick, or to which he is confined by sickness.
Synonym: Diseased, ill, disordered, distempered, indisposed, weak, ailing, feeble, morbid.
Origin: These terms, sick bed, sick berth, etc, are also written both hyphened and solid.
Source: Websters Vocabulary