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

In a brainsick manner.

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

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

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

Having a sickly color; wan. To look so green and pale. Shak.

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

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

Not sound and healthful; induced by a diseased or abnormal condition; diseased; sickly; as, morbid humors; a morbid constitution; a morbid state of the juices of a plant. "Her sick and morbid heart." Hawthorne.

Causing disease; generating a sickly state; as, a morbific matter.

The quality or condition of being pale; want of freshness or ruddiness; a sickly whiteness; lack of color or luster; wanness. The blood the virgin's cheek forsook; A livid paleness spreads o'er all her look. Pope.

Sickly; not robust. [Colloq.]

Pining; sickly; peakish. [Colloq.]

Having features thin or sharp, as from sickness; hence, sickly. [Colloq.]

Sickly; peaked. [Colloq.]

Puny; sickly. [Local, U.S.]

Sick at the stomach; affected with nausea or sickly languor; inclined to vomit. Shak. -- Qualm"ish*ly, adv. -- Qualm"ish*ness, n.

Having a yellowish color; of a pale, sickly color, tinged with yellow; as, a sallow skin. Shak.

Made sickly. See Sickly, v.

The quality or state of being sickly.