Syn. — Diseased; ailing; infirm; weakly; unhealthy; healthless; weak; feeble; languid; faint.
Sickly
(Sick"ly), adv. In a sick manner or condition; ill.
My people sickly [with ill will] beareth our marriage.
Chaucer. Sickly
(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. Sickness
(Sick"ness), n. [AS. seócness.]
1. The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; sisease or malady.
I do lament the sickness of the king.
Shak.
Trust not too much your now resistless charms;
Those, age or sickness soon or late disarms.
Pope. 2. Nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach.
Syn. — Illness; disease; malady. See Illness.
Sicle
(Si"cle) n. [F., fr. L. silcus, Heb. shegel. See Shekel.] A shekel. [Obs.]
The holy mother brought five sicles and a pair of turtledoves to redeem the Lamb of God.
Jer. Taylor. Sida
(||Si"da) n. [NL., fr. Gr. a kind of plant.] (Bot.) A genus of malvaceous plants common in the
tropics. All the species are mucilaginous, and some have tough ligneous fibers which are used as a
substitute for hemp and flax. Balfour
Siddow
(Sid"dow) a. Soft; pulpy. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
Side
(Side) n. [AS. side; akin to D. zijde, G. seite, OHG. sita, Icel. sia, Dan. side, Sw. sida; cf.
AS. sid large, spacious, Icel. sir long, hanging.]
1. The margin, edge, verge, or border of a surface; especially (when the thing spoken of is somewhat
oblong in shape), one of the longer edges as distinguished from the shorter edges, called ends; a bounding
line of a geometrical figure; as, the side of a field, of a square or triangle, of a river, of a road, etc.
3. Any outer portion of a thing considered apart from, and yet in relation to, the rest; as, the upper side
of a sphere; also, any part or position viewed as opposite to or contrasted with another; as, this or that
side.
Looking round on every side beheld
A pathless desert.
Milton. 4. (a) One of the halves of the body, of an animals or man, on either side of the mesial plane; or that
which pertains to such a half; as, a side of beef; a side of sole leather. (b) The right or left part of the
wall or trunk of the body; as, a pain in the side.
One of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side.
John xix. 34. 5. A slope or declivity, as of a hill, considered as opposed to another slope over the ridge.
Along the side of yon small hill.
Milton.
