SICK'LY, a.
1. Not healthy somewhat affected with disease or habitually indisposed as a sickly person, or a sickly constitution a sickly plant.
2. Producing disease extensively marked with sickness as a sickly time a sickly autumn.
3. Tending to produce disease as a sickly climate.
4. Faint weak languid. The moon grows sickly at the sight of day.
SICK'LY, 5 t. To make diseased.
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