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of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral. The pain and sickness caused by manna are the effects of its operation on the stomach. Locke. Speculative painting, without the assistance of manual operation, can never attain to perfection. Dryden.

Capable of being ordered; tractable. [R.] Being very orderable in all his sickness. Fuller.

Having features thin or sharp, as from sickness; hence, sickly. [Colloq.]

Wise, warlike, personable, courteous, and kind. Spenser. The king, . . . so visited with sickness, was not personable. E. Hall.

A specific internal application for the cure or relief of sickness; a remedy for disease; a medicine.

e pleaded in favor of the rights of ambassadors. Spenser. I will neither plead my age nor sickness, in excuse of faults. Dryden.

To pull through, to come successfully to the end of a difficult undertaking, a dangerous sickness, or the like.

Sickness; disease; pestilence; death. [Obs.] thousand slain and not of qualm ystorve [dead]. Chaucer.

enser. Unto my first I will have my recourse. Chaucer. Preventive physic . . . preventeth sickness in the healthy, or the recourse thereof in the valetudinary. Sir T. Browne.

To restore from sickness, faintness, or the like; to bring back to life or health; to cure; to heal. The wine in my bottle will recover him. Shak.

being recovered or regained; capable of being brought back to a former condition, as from sickness, misfortune, etc.; obtainable from a debtor or possessor; as, the debt is recoverable; goods lost or sunk in the ocean are not recoverable. A prodigal course Is like the sun's; but not, like his, recoverable. Shak. If I a…

Restoration from sickness, weakness, faintness, or the like; restoration from a condition of mistortune, of fright, etc.

To restore, as from weariness, sickness; or the like; to repair. In western waves his weary wagon did recure. Spenser.

To chill; to cool. [Obs.] Refreyded by sickness . . . or by cold drinks. Chaucer.

The state of being restored; recovery of health, strength, etc.; as, restoration from sickness.

my eyes distill in showers. Dryden. And tempt the rheumy and unpurged air To add unto his sickness. Shak.

Affected with seasickness.

manner and character of; to imitate; to ape; to feign. To sham Abram or Abraham, to feign sickness; to malinger. Hence a malingerer is called, in sailors' cant, Sham Abram, or Sham Abraham.

he sick. -- Sick room, a room in which a person lies sick, or to which he is confined by sickness.

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