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a mule for carrying travelers in mountainous districts, or for the transportation of the sick and wounded of an army.

A patient under treatment; an instance of sickness or injury; as, ten cases of fever; also, the history of a disease or injury. A proper remedy in hypochondriacal cases. Arbuthnot.

oic poem, but in another cast and figure. Prior. And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought. Shak.

A species of divination, which was perforned by letting down a mirror into water, for a sick person to look at his face in it. If his countenance appeared distorted and ghastly, it was an ill omen; if fresh and healthy, it was favorable.

A kind of warm drink for sick persons, being a mixture of wine with eggs, bread, sugar, and spices.

. C. Ch.), a sisterhood of religious women engaged in works of mercy, esp. in nursing the sick; -- a popular designation. There are various orders of the Sisters of Charity.

The green sickness; an anæmic disease of young women, characterized by a greenish or grayish yellow hue of the skin, weakness, palpitation, etc.

t which is approved and selected in preference to others; selection. The common wealth is sick of their own choice. Shak.

disease of mind and body which teaches that all cause and effect is mental, and that sin, sickness, and death will be destroyed by a full understanding of the Divine Principle of Jesus' teaching and healing. The system was founded by Rev. Mary Baker Glover Eddy, of Concord, N. H., in 1866, and bases its teaching on the…

inate; luxurious. [Obs.] I am not well, But not so citizen a wanton as To seem to die ere sick. Shak.

ails, etc. -- Claw hammer coat, a dress coat of the swallowtail pattern. [Slang] -- Claw sickness, foot rot, a disease affecting sheep.

One confined to the bed by sickness.

Of or pertaining to a bed, especially, a sick bed.

A utensil to hold a chamber vessel, for the use of the sick and infirm. It is usually in the form of a box, with a seat and tight cover.

Free, or comparatively free, from pain or distress; -- used of a sick person. [U. S.]

Commonness; frequency. [Obs.] Eyes . . . sick and blunted with community. Shak.

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

Extremely; odiously; detestably. [Colloq.] "Confoundedly sick." Goldsmith.

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.