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Sickly \Sick"ly\, adv.
In a sick manner or condition; ill.
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My people sickly [with ill will] beareth our marriage.
--Chaucer.
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Sickly \Sick"ly\, v. t.
To make sick or sickly; -- with over, and probably only in
the past participle. [R.]
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Sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought. --Shak.
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Sentiments sicklied over . . . with that cloying
heaviness into which unvaried sweetness is too apt to
subside. --Jeffrey.
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Sickly \Sick"ly\, a. [Compar. {Sicklier}; superl. {Sickliest}.]
1. Somewhat sick; disposed to illness; attended with disease;
as, a sickly body.
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This physic but prolongs thy sickly days. --Shak.
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2. Producing, or tending to, disease; as, a sickly autumn; a
sickly climate. --Cowper.
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3. Appearing as if sick; weak; languid; pale.
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The moon grows sickly at the sight of day. --Dryden.
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Nor torrid summer's sickly smile. --Keble.
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4. Tending to produce nausea; sickening; as, a sickly smell;
sickly sentimentality.
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Syn: Diseased; ailing; infirm; weakly; unhealthy; healthless;
weak; feeble; languid; faint.
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