Hypertext Webster Gateway: "sick"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Sick \Sick\, v. i.
To fall sick; to sicken. [Obs.] --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Sick \Sick\, a. [Compar. {Sicker}; superl. {Sickest}.] [OE. sek,
sik, ill, AS. se['o]c; akin to OS. siok, seoc, OFries. siak,
D. ziek, G. siech, OHG. sioh, Icel. sj?kr, Sw. sjuk, Dan.
syg, Goth. siuks ill, siukan to be ill.]
1. Affected with disease of any kind; 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.

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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Sick \Sick\, n.
Sickness. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

sick
adj 1: not in good physical or mental health; "ill from the
monotony of his suffering" [syn: {ill}] [ant: {well}]
2: feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit [syn: {nauseated}, {queasy},
{sickish}]
3: affected with madness or insanity; "a man who had gone mad"
[syn: {brainsick}, {crazy}, {demented}, {distracted}, {disturbed},
{mad}, {unbalanced}, {unhinged}]
4: having a strong distaste from surfeit; "grew more and more
disgusted"; "fed up with their complaints"; "sick of it
all"; "sick to death of flattery"; "gossip that makes one
sick"; "tired of the noise and smoke" [syn: {disgusted}, {fed
up(p)}, {sick(p)}, {sick of(p)}, {tired of(p)}]
n : people who are sick; "they devote their lives to caring for
the sick"
v : eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; "After
drinking too much, the students vomited" [syn: {vomit}, {vomit
up}, {cast}, {cat}, {regurgitate}, {be sick}, {disgorge},
{regorge}, {retch}, {puke}, {barf}, {spew}, {spue}, {chuck},
{upchuck}, {honk}, {throw up}] [ant: {keep down}]


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