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One recovering from sickness.

An incubator for sickly infants, esp. those prematurely born.

To make sour or morose; to embitter. [Obs.] Sickness sours or crabs our nature. Glanvill.

A sick person; an invalid. [Obs.] Thou art a counterfeit crank, a cheater. Burton. Crank axle (Mach.), a driving axle formed with a crank or cranks, as in some kinds of locomotives. -- Crank pin (Mach.), the cylindrical piece which forms the handle, or to which the connecting rod is attached, at the end of a crank, or…

The sickness occasioned by intemperance; surfeit. Bailey.

Surcharged with liquor; sick from excessive indulgence in liquor; drunk; given to excesses. [R.]

hum or sing in a low tone; to murmur softly. Here an old grandmother was crooning over a sick child, and rocking it to and fro. Dickens.

are seen. Pope. Gayly curl the waves before each dashing prow. Byron. He smiled a king of sickly smile, and curled up on the floor. Bret Harte. . 358

The bed in which a person dies; hence, the closing hours of life of one who dies by sickness or the like; the last sickness. That often-quoted passage from Lord Hervey in which the Queen's deathbed is described. Thackeray.

Deadly; as, deathly pale or sick.

An act or occasion of debauchery. Silenus, from his night's debauch, Fatigued and sick. Cowley.

Confinement to a sick bed, or time of taking to one's bed from sickness. Boyle.

Excrements; as, the dejecta of the sick.

ess; complete despondency. We in dark dreams are tossing to and fro, Pine with regret, or sicken with despair. Keble. Before he [Bunyan] was ten, his sports were interrupted by fits of remorse and despair. Macaulay.

by the view or sight. Bacon. Now, where is he that will not stay so long Till his friend sickness hath determined me Shak.

et is prepared for invalids; a charitable establishment that provides proper food for the sick poor.

To render unacquainted; to make unfamiliar. [Obs.] While my sick heart With dismal smart Is disacquainted never. Herrick.

ital functions, and causing or threatening pain and weakness; malady; affection; illness; sickness; disorder; -- applied figuratively to the mind, to the moral character and habits, to institutions, the state, etc. Diseases desperate grown, By desperate appliances are relieved. Shak. The instability, injustice, and con…

The state of being diseased; a morbid state; sickness. [R.] T. Burnet.

sure produced by something loathsome; loathing; strong distaste; -- said primarily of the sickening opposition felt for anything which offends the physical organs of taste; now rather of the analogous repugnance excited by anything extremely unpleasant to the moral taste or higher sensibilities of our nature; as, an ac…