SICK, a. Qu.Gr. squeamish, lothing.
1. Affected with nausea inclined to vomit as, sick at the stomach. This is probably the primary sense of the word. Hence,
2. Disgusted having a strong dislike to with of as, to be sick of flattery to be sick of a country life.
He was not so sick of his master as of his work. L'Estrange.
3. Affected with a disease of any kind not in health followed by of as to be sick of a fever.
4. Corrupted. Not in use nor proper.
5. The sick, the person or persons affected with the disease. The sick are healed.
SICK, To make sick. Not in use. See Sicken.
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