SICK, a. [Qu.Gr. squeamish, lothing.]
1. Affected with nausea; inclined to vomit; as, sick at the stomach. [This is probably the primary sense of the word.] Hence,
2. Disgusted; having a strong dislike to; with of; as, to be sick of flattery; to be sick of a country life.
He was not so sick of his master as of his work. L'Estrange.
3. Affected with a disease of any kind; not in health; followed by of; as to be sick of a fever.
4. Corrupted. [Not in use nor proper.]
5. The sick, the person or persons affected with the disease. The sick are healed.
SICK, v.t. To make sick. [Not in use. See Sicken.]
SICK'-BIRTH, n. In a ship of war, an apartment for the sick.
