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Speaking with plain, unreserved sincerity; also, spoken sincerely; as, plain-spoken words. Dryden.

Affected by the influence of planets; blasted. Milton. Like planet-stricken men of yore He trembles, smitten to the core By strong compunction and remorse. Wordsworth.

Broken out, or marked, with smallpox; pock-fretten.

Spoken or speaking prettily. [Colloq.]

To stifle or choke. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

animate state; hence, to excite; to, stimulate; to incite. The mistress which I serve quickens what's dead. Shak. Like a fruitful garden without an hedge, that quickens the appetite to enjoy so tempting a prize. South.

The European rowan tree; -- called also quickbeam, and quickenbeam. See Rowan tree.

One who, or that which, quickens.

The act or process of making or of becoming quick.

Quitch grass.

To quicken anew; to reanimate; to give new life to. Shak.

Caused to shake; agitated; as, a shaken bough.

Speaking in a quick or short manner; hence, gruff; curt. [Colloq.]

from Shrink.

To make sick; to disease. Raise this strength, and sicken that to death. Prior.

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

Of or pertaining to silk; made of, or resembling, silk; as, silken cloth; a silken veil.

To squint. [Prov. Eng.]

See Skean. C. Kingsley.

slack; to be made less tense, firm, or rigid; to decrease in tension; as, a wet cord slackens in dry weather.