Simon's wife's mother lay sick of a fever. --Mark i.
30.
Behold them that are sick with famine. --Jer. xiv.
18.
2. Affected with, or attended by, nausea; inclined to vomit;
as, sick at the stomach; a sick headache.
3. Having a strong dislike; disgusted; surfeited; -- with of;
as, to be sick of flattery.
He was not so sick of his master as of his work.
--L'Estrange.
4. Corrupted; imperfect; impaired; weakned.
So great is his antipathy against episcopacy, that,
if a seraphim himself should be a bishop, he would
either find or make some sick feathers in his wings.
--Fuller.
{Sick bay} (Naut.), an apartment in a vessel, used as the
ship's hospital.
{Sick bed}, the bed upon which a person lies sick.
{Sick berth}, an apartment for the sick in a ship of war.
{Sick headache} (Med.), a variety of headache attended with
disorder of the stomach and nausea.
{Sick list}, a list containing the names of the sick.
{Sick room}, a room in which a person lies sick, or to which
he is confined by sickness.
Note: [These terms, sick bed, sick berth, etc., are also
written both hyphened and solid.]
Syn: Diseased; ill; disordered; distempered; indisposed;
weak; ailing; feeble; morbid.