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That causes disgust; sickening; offensive; revolting. -- Dis*gust"ing*ly, adv.

Disturbance of the functions of the animal economy of the soul; sickness; derangement. "Disorder in the body." Locke.

tes or makes unfit; as, conviction of crime is a disqualification of a person for office; sickness is a disqualification for labor. I must still retain the consciousness of those disqualifications which you have been pleased to overlook. Sir J. Shore.

To treat as a physician does; to apply remedies to; to repair; as, to doctor a sick man or a broken cart. [Colloq.]

One whose mind is impaired by age; one in second childhood. The sickly dotard wants a wife. Prior.

Sickness; ailment; sorrow. [Obs.] Sir T. Elyot.

To cause to waste away in flesh and become very lean; as, his sickness emaciated him.

The "falling sickness," so called because the patient falls suddenly to the ground; a disease characterized by paroxysms (or fits) occurring at interval and attended by sudden loss of consciousness, and convulsive motions of the muscles. Dunglison.

To deteriorate in respect to vigor, activity, resources, etc.; to become weaker; as, a sick man fails.

Hooked or bent like a sickle; as, a falcate leaf; a falcate claw; -- said also of the moon, or a planet, when horned or crescent- formed.

The state of being falcate; a bend in the form of a sickle. Sir T. Browne.

Having the shape of a scithe or sickle; resembling a reaping hook; as, the falciform ligatment of the liver.

ar turning down over the doublet, worn in the early part of the 17th century. -- Falling sickness (Med.), epilepsy. Shak. -- Falling star. (Astron.) See Shooting star. -- Falling stone, a stone falling through the atmosphere; a meteorite; an aërolite. -- Falling tide, the ebb tide. -- Falling weather, a rainy seas…

describing the state, etc.; as, to feel assured, grieved, persuaded. I then did feel full sick. Shak.

To represent by a false appearance of; to pretend; to counterfeit; as, to feign a sickness. Shak.

y the finest gentleman of his time, but one of the finest scholars. Felton. To soothe the sick bed of so fine a being [Keats]. Leigh Hunt.

ce, a period of exacerbation of a disease; in general, an attack of disease; as, a fit of sickness. And when the fit was on him, I did mark How he did shake. Shak.

A delirious picking of bedclothes by a sick person, as if to pick off flocks of wool; carphology; -- an alarming symptom in acute diseases. Dunglison.

Roman Catholic Chucrch, an association for special religious purposes, for relieving the sick and destitute, etc.

was the more freakish of the two. L'Estrange. Freakish when well, and fretful when she's sick. Pope. -- Freak"ish*ly, adv. -- Freak"ish*ness, n.