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Furnished with a sickle.

One who uses a sickle; a reaper. You sunburned sicklemen, of August weary. Shak.

One who uses a sickle; a sickleman; a reaper.

Free from sickness. [R.] Give me long breath, young beds, and sickless ease. Marston.

A plant of the genus Coronilla (C. scorpioides); -- so named from its curved pods.

gel] sees half of the Christians killed, and the rest in a fair way of being routed, he stickles betwixt the remainder of God's host and the race of fiends. Dryden.

es. They inhabit both salt and brackish water, and construct curious nests. Called also sticklebag, sharpling, and prickleback.

One who stickles. Specifically: --

The stonechat; -- called also stonesmitch. [Prov. Eng.]

An instrument to strike grain to a level with the measure; a strike.

See Strickle.

See Strickle. [Prov. Eng.]

uses laughter, and a kind of spasm which become dengerous if too long protracted. If you tickle us, do we not laugh Shak.

Uncertain; inconstant; slippery. [Obs. & R.] Beau. & Fl.

A coarse, mixed linen fabric made to be sold in the West Indies.

Unsteadiness. [Obs.] For hoard hath hate, and climbing tickleness. Chaucer.

One who, or that which, tickles.

To flow in a small, gentle stream; to run in drops. His salt tears trickled down as rain. Chaucer. Fast beside there trickled softly down A gentle stream. Spenser.

A prickle.

Armed with prickles, as a plant.