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To become sick; to fall into disease. The judges that sat upon the jail, and those that attended, sickened upon it and died. Bacon.

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

Passage of excrements; stool; fecal matter. [Obs.] The siege of this mooncalf. Shak.

In this diagram there was one significator which pressed remarkably upon our astrologer's attention. Sir W. Scott.

To accompany, or attend on, with singing. I heard them singing home the bride. Longfellow.

which two constitute the skat (sense 2), or widow. The players bid for the privilege of attempting any of several games or tasks, in most of which the player undertaking the game must take tricks counting in aggregate at least 61 (the counting cards being ace 11, ten 10, king 4, queen 3, jack 2). The four jacks are t…

To hasten along with superficial attention. They skim over a science in a very superficial survey. I. Watts.

dage to another; one who is wholly subject to the will of another; one who is held as a chattel; one who has no freedom of action, but whose person and services are wholly under the control of another. thou our slave, Our captive, at the public mill our drudge Milton.

To be careless, inattentive, or uncouncerned; not to be vigilant; to live thoughtlessly. We sleep over our happiness. Atterbury.

To hit hard, esp. with little attention to aim or the like, as in cricket or boxing; to slug. [Cant or Slang]

To attempt to seize something suddenly; to catch; -- often with at; as, to snatch at a rope.

To laugh with audible catches of voice, as when persons attempt to suppress loud laughter.

Not proceeding from, or attended with, passion; calm; as, sober judgment; a man in his sober senses.

certainly want a true history of socialism, meaning by that a history of every systematic attempt to provide a new social existence for the mass of the workers. F. Harrison.

ceremony adapted to impress with awe. The forms and solemnities of the last judgment. Atterburry.

ng to talk of, something to wish for, and something to be employed about. Pope. Something attemped, something done, Has earned a night's repose. Longfellow.

Foul matter; excretion; dregs; filthy, useless, or rejected matter of any kind; specifically (Med.), the foul matter that collects on the teeth and tongue in low fevers and other conditions attended with great vital depression.

A female servant or attendant; specifically, as a term of the theater, a lady's maid, in comedies, who acts the part of an intrigante; a meddlesome, mischievous female servant or young woman.

f the capsular ligament of the hock; -- called also blood spavin. -- Bone spavin, spavin attended with exostosis; ordinary spavin.

s represented everywhere in Scripture as the special patron of the poor and the afficted. Atterbury. To this special evil an improvement of style would apply a special redress. De Quincey.