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A seal; a coining die; -- used adjectively to designate the silver currency of the Mogul emperors, or the Indian rupee of 192 grains. Sicca rupee, an East Indian coin, valued nominally at about two shillings sterling, or fifty cents.

To dry. [R.]

The act or process of drying. [R.] Bailey.

Drying; causing to dry. -- n.

Causing dryness.

Dryness; aridity; destitution of moisture. [Obs.] The siccity and dryness of its flesh. Sir T. Browne.

The number six at dice.

A strong drink; cider. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Such. [Obs. or Colloq.] Spenser.

Of or pertaining to Sicily or its inhabitants. Sicilian vespers, the great massacre of the French in Sicily, in the year 1282, on the evening of Easter Monday, at the hour of vespers.

A Sicilian dance, resembling the pastorale, set to a rather slow and graceful melody in 12-8 or 6-8 measure; also, the music to the dance.

A kind of rich poplin.

with disease of any kind; ill; indisposed; not in health. See the Synonym under Illness. Simon's wife's mother lay sick of a fever. Mark i. 30. Behold them that are sick with famine. Jer. xiv. 18.

Disordered in the brain.

To make sick; to disease. Raise this strength, and sicken that to death. Prior.

Causing sickness; specif., causing surfeit or disgust; nauseating. -- Sick"en*ing*ly, adv.

To percolate, trickle, or ooze, as water through a crack. [Also written sigger, zigger, and zifhyr.] [Prov. Eng.]

Sure; certain; trusty. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Burns. When he is siker of his good name. Chaucer.

Surely; securely. [Obs.] But sikerly, withouten any fable. Chaucer.

The quality or state of being sicker, or certain. [Obs.] Chaucer. Spenser.