Sick"ly (?), a. [Compar. Sicklier (?); superl. Sickliest.]
1.
Somewhat sick; disposed to illness; attended with disease; as, a sickly body.
This physic but prolongs thy sickly days.
Shak.
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.
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Sick"ly, adv.
In a sick manner or condition; ill.
My people sickly [with ill will] beareth our marriage.
Chaucer.
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Sick"ly, v. 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.
Shak.
Sentiments sicklied over . . . with that cloying heaviness into which unvaried sweetness is too apt to subside.
Jeffrey.
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