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To restore, as from weariness, sickness; or the like; to repair. In western waves his weary wagon did recure. Spenser.

a convention of 1864; any of the national societies for alleviating the sufferings of the sick and wounded war, also giving aid and relief during great calamities; also, a member or worker of such a society; -- so called from the badge of neutrality; the Geneva cross.

To chill; to cool. [Obs.] Refreyded by sickness . . . or by cold drinks. Chaucer.

ion, and was oppressed with its own sap. Bacon. Replecioun [overeating] ne made her never sick. Chaucer.

mental elements reserved for purposes of devotion and for the communion of the absent and sick.

The state of being restored; recovery of health, strength, etc.; as, restoration from sickness.

her superior officer; as, the return of men fit for duty; the return of the number of the sick; the return of provisions, etc.

my eyes distill in showers. Dryden. And tempt the rheumy and unpurged air To add unto his sickness. Shak.

ted from the East Indies, much used for making puddings and as an article of diet for the sick; also, as starch, for stiffening textile fabrics. It is prepared from the stems of several East Indian and Malayan palm trees, but chiefly from the Metroxylon Sagu; also from several cycadaceous plants (Cycas revoluta, Zamia…

Having a yellowish color; of a pale, sickly color, tinged with yellow; as, a sallow skin. Shak.

An establishment for the treatment of the sick; a resort for invalids. See Sanitarium.

Sick. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Sick. [Obs.] Chaucer.

manner and character of; to imitate; to ape; to feign. To sham Abram or Abraham, to feign sickness; to malinger. Hence a malingerer is called, in sailors' cant, Sham Abram, or Sham Abraham.

That which covers or defends from injury or annoyance; a protection; a screen. The sick and weak the healing plant shall aid, From storms a shelter, and from heat a shade. Pope.

Same as Sicker. [Prov. Eng.]

A sick person. [Prov. Eng.]

See 2d Sicker, Sickerly, etc. [Obs.]

A lord, master, or other person in authority. See Sir. [Obs.] Pain and distress, sickness and ire, And melancholy that angry sire, Be of her palace senators. Rom. of R.

with the body upright; as, to sit up late at night; also, to watch; as, to sit up with a sick person. "He that was dead sat up, and began to speak." Luke vii. 15.