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Webster 1913 Edition

Sickly

Sick′ly

,
Adj.
[
Com
par.
Sicklier
;
sup
erl.
Sickliest
.]
1.
Somewhat sick; disposed to illness; attended with disease;
as, a
sickly
body
.
This physic but prolongs thy
sickly
days.
Shakespeare
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

,
Verb.
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.
Shakespeare
Sentiments
sicklied
over . . . with that cloying heaviness into which unvaried sweetness is too apt to subside.
Jeffrey.

Webster 1828 Edition

Sickly

SICK'LY

,
Adj.
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

,
Verb.
T.
To make diseased.

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