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. [These terms, sick bed, sick berth, etc., are also written both hyphened and solid.]

Syn. — Diseased; ill; disordered; distempered; indisposed; weak; ailing; feeble; morbid.

Sick
(Sick), n. Sickness. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Sick
(Sick), v. i. To fall sick; to sicken. [Obs.] Shak.

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.


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