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Webster 1828 Edition


Ailing

A'ILING

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ppr.
Diseased; indisposed; full of complaints.

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ailing

ailing

English

Noun

ailing (plural ailings)

  1. An ailment.
    • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 5, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
      When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.

Verb

ailing

  1. present participle of ail

Adjective

ailing (comparative more ailing, superlative most ailing)

  1. Sickly; sick; ill; unwell.

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