sickles English
Noun
(head)
Verb
(head)
(sickle)
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sicklies English
Verb
(head)
(sickly)
sickly English
Adjective
( er)
Frequently ill; often in poor health; given to becoming ill.
- a sickly child
Having the appearance of sickness or ill health; appearing ill, infirm or unhealthy; pale.
- a sickly plant
* Dryden
- The moon grows sickly at the sight of day.
Weak; faint; suggesting unhappiness.
- a sickly smile
Somewhat sick; disposed to illness; attended with disease.
* Shakespeare
- This physic but prolongs thy sickly days.
Tending to produce disease.
- a sickly''' autumn; a '''sickly climate
- (Cowper)
Tending to produce nausea; sickening.
- a sickly''' smell; '''sickly sentimentality
Related terms
* sickliness
Verb
To make sickly.
* Shakespeare
- Sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought.
* 1840 , S. M. Heaton, George Heaton, Thoughts on the Litany, by a naval officer's orphan daughter (page 58)
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* 1871 , Gail Hamilton, Country living and country thinking (page 109)
- He evidently thinks the sweet little innocents never heard or thought of such a thing before, and would go on burying their curly heads in books, and sicklying their rosy faces with "the pale cast of thought" till the end of time
Adverb
( en adverb)
In a sick manner.
* 2010 , Rowan Somerville, The End of Sleep (page 66)
- The creaseless horizontal face of the giant smiled sickly , leering.
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