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One confined to the bed by sickness.

Restraint within doors by sickness, esp. that caused by childbirth; lying-in.

To recover health and strength gradually, after sickness or weakness; as, a patient begins to convalesce.

ecovery of heath and strength after disease; the state of a body renewing its vigor after sickness or weakness; the time between the subsidence of a disease and complete restoration to health.

One recovering from sickness.

To make sour or morose; to embitter. [Obs.] Sickness sours or crabs our nature. Glanvill.

The sickness occasioned by intemperance; surfeit. Bailey.

The bed in which a person dies; hence, the closing hours of life of one who dies by sickness or the like; the last sickness. That often-quoted passage from Lord Hervey in which the Queen's deathbed is described. Thackeray.

Confinement to a sick bed, or time of taking to one's bed from sickness. Boyle.

by the view or sight. Bacon. Now, where is he that will not stay so long Till his friend sickness hath determined me Shak.

ital functions, and causing or threatening pain and weakness; malady; affection; illness; sickness; disorder; -- applied figuratively to the mind, to the moral character and habits, to institutions, the state, etc. Diseases desperate grown, By desperate appliances are relieved. Shak. The instability, injustice, and con…

The state of being diseased; a morbid state; sickness. [R.] T. Burnet.

Disturbance of the functions of the animal economy of the soul; sickness; derangement. "Disorder in the body." Locke.

tes or makes unfit; as, conviction of crime is a disqualification of a person for office; sickness is a disqualification for labor. I must still retain the consciousness of those disqualifications which you have been pleased to overlook. Sir J. Shore.

Sickness; ailment; sorrow. [Obs.] Sir T. Elyot.

To cause to waste away in flesh and become very lean; as, his sickness emaciated him.

The "falling sickness," so called because the patient falls suddenly to the ground; a disease characterized by paroxysms (or fits) occurring at interval and attended by sudden loss of consciousness, and convulsive motions of the muscles. Dunglison.

To perish; to die; -- used of a person. [Obs.] Had the king in his last sickness failed. Shak.

ar turning down over the doublet, worn in the early part of the 17th century. -- Falling sickness (Med.), epilepsy. Shak. -- Falling star. (Astron.) See Shooting star. -- Falling stone, a stone falling through the atmosphere; a meteorite; an aërolite. -- Falling tide, the ebb tide. -- Falling weather, a rainy seas…

To represent by a false appearance of; to pretend; to counterfeit; as, to feign a sickness. Shak.