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, n. Sickness. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Sick, v. i. To fall sick; to sicken. [Obs.] Shak.
Sick"-brained` (?), a. Disordered in the brain.
Sick"en (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sickened (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Sickening.] 1. To make sick; to disease.
Raise this strength, and sicken that to death.
Prior.
2. To make qualmish; to nauseate; to disgust; as, to sicken the
stomach.