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Giddy. [Obs.] Bacon.

England, feigning lunacy for the sake of obtaining alms. Nares. To sham Abraham, to feign sickness. Goldsmith.

of persons who withdraw to avoid a legal process; as, an absconding debtor. That very homesickness which, in regular armies, drives so many recruits to abscond. Macaulay.

The cause of continued pain of body or mind, as sickness, losses, etc.; an instance of grievous distress; a pain or grief. To repay that money will be a biting affliction. Shak.

Ago. [Archaic. & Poet.] Three days agone I fell sick. 1 Sam. xxx. 13.

Recovery of strength after sickness.

An abnormal condition due to deficient aëration of the blood, as in balloon sickness, mountain sickness. -- An`ox*æ"mic, *e"mic (#), a.

An access of disease; a fit of sickness.

y or follow in order to do service; to escort; to wait on; to serve. The fifth had charge sick persons to attend. Spenser. Attends the emperor in his royal court. Shak. With a sore heart and a gloomy brow, he prepared to attend William thither. Macaulay.

k. [Obs. or Obsolescent] By reason of the contagion then in London, we balked the Evelyn. Sick he is, and keeps his bed, and balks his meat. Bp. Hall. Nor doth he any creature balk, But lays on all he meeteth. Drayton.

A kind of mahogany obtained from Campeachy Bay. Sick bay, in vessels of war, that part of a deck appropriated to the use of the sick. Totten.

In the United States navy, a sick-bay nurse; -- now officially designated as hospital apprentice.

A chair with adjustable back, for the sick, to support them while sitting up in bed.

Belonging to, or fit for, a madhouse. "The bedlam, brainsick duchess." Shak.

A shallow chamber vessel, so constructed that it can be used by a sick person in bed.

Confined to the bed by sickness or infirmity. "Her decrepit, sick, and bedrid father." Shak. "The estate of a bedridden old gentleman." Macaulay.

med for mutual insurance, as among tradesmen or in labor unions, to provide for relief in sickness, old age, and for the expenses of burial. Usually called friendly society in Great Britain.

A sweat accompanied by a discharge of blood; a disease, called sweating sickness, formerly prevalent in England and other countries.

mend; esp. to patch in a clumsy or imperfect manner, as a garment; -- sometimes with up. Sick bodies . . . to be kept and botched up for a time. Robynson (More's Utopia).

A rash or eruption; a sudden or transient fit of sickness.