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ill; indisposed; not in health. See the Synonym under Illness. Simon's wife's mother lay sick of a fever. Mark i. 30. Behold them that are sick with famine. Jer. xiv. 18.

Disordered in the brain.

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.

To percolate, trickle, or ooze, as water through a crack. [Also written sigger, zigger, and zifhyr.] [Prov. Eng.]

Surely; certainly. [Obs.] Believe this as siker as your creed. Chaucer. Sicker, Willye, thou warnest well. Spenser.

Surely; securely. [Obs.] But sikerly, withouten any fable. Chaucer.

The quality or state of being sicker, or certain. [Obs.] Chaucer. Spenser.

Somewhat sick or diseased.

f a steel blade curved into the form of a hook, and having a handle fitted on a tang. The sickle has one side of the blade notched, so as always to sharpen with a serrated edge. Cf. Reaping hook, under Reap. When corn has once felt the sickle, it has no more benefit from the sunshine. Shak.

of Central and South America. They have a long and strongly curved bill. Called also the sickle-billed hummer.

Furnished with a sickle.

One who uses a sickle; a reaper. You sunburned sicklemen, of August weary. Shak.

One who uses a sickle; a sickleman; a reaper.

Free from sickness. [R.] Give me long breath, young beds, and sickless ease. Marston.

A plant of the genus Coronilla (C. scorpioides); -- so named from its curved pods.

Made sickly. See Sickly, v.

The quality or state of being sickly.

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

The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; sisease or malady. I do lament the sickness of the king. Shak. Trust not too much your now resistless charms; Those, age or sickness soon or late disarms. Pope.