The moon grows sickly at the sight of day.
Dryden.
Nor torrid summer's sickly smile.
Keble.
4. Tending to produce nausea; sickening; as, a sickly smell; sickly
sentimentality.
Syn. -- Diseased; ailing; infirm; weakly; unhealthy; healthless; weak;
feeble; languid; faint.
Sick"ly, adv. In a sick manner or condition; ill.
My people sickly [with ill will] beareth our marriage.
Chaucer.
Sick"ly, v. t. To make sick or sickly; -- with over, and probably only
in the past participle. [R.]
Sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought.
Shak.
Sentiments sicklied over . . . with that cloying heaviness into
which unvaried sweetness is too apt to subside.
Jeffrey.
Sick"ness, n. [AS. seócness.] 1. The quality or state of being sick or
diseased; illness; sisease or malady.