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Somewhat sick or diseased.

A reaping instrument consisting of a steel blade curved into the form of a hook, and having a handle fitted on a tang. The sickle has one side of the blade notched, so as always to sharpen with a serrated edge. Cf. Reaping hook, under Reap. When corn has once felt the sickle, it has no more benefit from the sunshine. S…

of Central and South America. They have a long and strongly curved bill. Called also the sickle-billed hummer.

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.

Made sickly. See Sickly, v.

The quality or state of being sickly.

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

The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; sisease or malady. I do lament the sickness of the king. Shak. Trust not too much your now resistless charms; Those, age or sickness soon or late disarms. Pope.

A shekel. [Obs.] The holy mother brought five sicles and a pair of turtledoves to redeem the Lamb of God. Jer. Taylor.

A genus of malvaceous plants common in the tropics. All the species are mucilaginous, and some have tough ligneous fibers which are used as a substitute for hemp and flax. Balfour (Cyc. of India).

Soft; pulpy. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

hed from the shorter edges, called ends; a bounding line of a geometrical figure; as, the side of a field, of a square or triangle, of a river, of a road, etc.

A line pert. or attached to the side of a thing.

See Skid, below.

are themselves complex. Complex molecules react with one another through certain of their side chains, but only when these side chains have a definite correspondence in structure (this account for the specific action of antitoxins).

See Skid, below.