Sick"ly (?), a.
[Compar. Sicklier (?);
superl. Sickliest.] 1.
Somewhat sick; disposed to illness; attended with disease; as, a
sickly body.
This physic but prolongs thy sickly
days.
Shak.
2. Producing, or tending to, disease; as, a
sickly autumn; a sickly climate.
Cowper.
3. Appearing as if sick; weak; languid;
pale.
The moon grows sickly at the sight of
day.
Dryden.
Nor torrid summer's sickly smile.
Keble.
4. Tending to produce nausea; sickening; as, a
sickly smell; sickly sentimentality.
Syn. -- Diseased; ailing; infirm; weakly; unhealthy;
healthless; weak; feeble; languid; faint.
Sick"ly, adv. In a sick manner or
condition; ill.
My people sickly [with ill will] beareth our
marriage.
Chaucer.
Sick"ly, v. t. To make sick or
sickly; -- with over, and probably only in the past
participle. [R.]
Sicklied o'er with the pale cast of
thought.
Shak.
Sentiments sicklied over . . . with that cloying
heaviness into which unvaried sweetness is too apt to
subside.
Jeffrey.
Sick"ly (?), a.
[Compar. Sicklier (?);
superl. Sickliest.] 1.
Somewhat sick; disposed to illness; attended with disease; as, a
sickly body.
This physic but prolongs thy sickly
days.
Shak.
2. Producing, or tending to, disease; as, a
sickly autumn; a sickly climate.
Cowper.
3. Appearing as if sick; weak; languid;
pale.
The moon grows sickly at the sight of
day.
Dryden.
Nor torrid summer's sickly smile.
Keble.
4. Tending to produce nausea; sickening; as, a
sickly smell; sickly sentimentality.
Syn. -- Diseased; ailing; infirm; weakly; unhealthy;
healthless; weak; feeble; languid; faint.
Sick"ly, adv. In a sick manner or
condition; ill.
My people sickly [with ill will] beareth our
marriage.
Chaucer.
Sick"ly, v. t. To make sick or
sickly; -- with over, and probably only in the past
participle. [R.]
Sicklied o'er with the pale cast of
thought.
Shak.
Sentiments sicklied over . . . with that cloying
heaviness into which unvaried sweetness is too apt to
subside.
Jeffrey.
