SICKLY

a. adv. v.

6 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Somewhat sick; disposed to illness; attended with disease; as, a sickly body. This physic but prolongs thy sickly days. Shak.

2.
a.

Producing, or tending to, disease; as, a sickly autumn; a sickly climate. Cowper.

3.
a.

Appearing as if sick; weak; languid; pale. The moon grows sickly at the sight of day. Dryden. Nor torrid summer's sickly smile. Keble.

4.
a.

Tending to produce nausea; sickening; as, a sickly smell; sickly sentimentality.

5.
adv.

In a sick manner or condition; ill. My people sickly [with ill will] beareth our marriage. Chaucer.

6.
v.

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.


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