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e sea; goods and buildings are insured against fire or water; persons are insured against sickness, accident, or death; and sometimes hazardous debts are insured.

Not well; feeble; infirm; sickly; as, he had an invalid daughter.

The condition of an invalid; sickness; infirmity.

s as, the state of affairs, the condition of things, and the like; as, how is it with the sick man Think on me when it shall be well with thee. Gen. xl. 14.

ed in seeking for admittance. Shut, shut the door, good John ! fatigued, knocker; say I'm sick, I'm dead. Pope.

Any enfeebling disease. [Obs.] Sick men with divers languors. Wyclif (Luke iv. 40).

lation east of Cancer, containing the bright star Regulus at the end of the handle of the Sickle. Leo Minor, a small constellation between Leo and the Great Bear.

To spend or pass in lingering manner; -- with out; as, to linger out one's days on a sick bed. Dryden.

A bed or stretcher so arranged that a person, esp. a sick or wounded person, may be easily carried in or upon it. There is a litter ready; lay him in 't. Shak.

Deficient in vital energy; feeble; weak; as, a low pulse; made low by sickness.

Pale, like a sick girl. Shak.

Judg. xvi. 25. Wealth maketh many friends. Prov. xix. 4. I will neither plead my age nor sickness in excuse of the faults which I have made. Dryden.

An indefinite feeling of uneasiness, or of being sick or ill at ease.

In the army, a soldier who feigns himself sick, or who induces or protracts an illness, in order to avoid doing his duty; hence, in general, one who shirks his duty by pretending illness or inability.

them. -- Medicine man (among the North American Indians), a person who professes to cure sickness, drive away evil spirits, and regulate the weather by the arts of magic. -- Medicine seal, a small gem or paste engraved with reversed characters, to serve as a seal. Such seals were used by Roman physicians to stamp the…

A kind of sick or nevrous headache, usually periodical and confined to one side of the head.

ducation of girls, and protect decent women out of employment, to visit prisoners and the sick, and to attend persons condemned to death. -- To be at the mercy of, to be wholly in the power of.

Milk pea (Bot.), a genus (Galactia) of leguminous and, usually, twining plants. -- Milk sickness (Med.), a peculiar malignant disease, occurring in some parts of the Western United States, and affecting certain kinds of farm stock (esp. cows), and persons who make use of the meat or dairy products of infected cattle.…

Made sick by the supposed influence of the moon, as a human being; made unsuitable for food, as fishes, by such supposed influence.

To be dull and spiritless. "Moping melancholy." Milton. A sickly part of one true sense Could not so mope. Shak.