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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sick \Sick\, a. [Compar. {Sicker}; superl. {Sickest}.] [OE. sek,
      sik, ill, AS. se[a2]c; akin to OS. siok, seoc, OFries. siak,
      D. ziek, G. siech, OHG. sioh, Icel. sj[?]kr, Sw. sjuk, Dan.
      syg, Goth. siuks ill, siukan to be ill.]
      1. Affected with disease of any kind; ill; indisposed; not in
            health. See the Synonym under {Illness}.
  
                     Simon's wife's mother lay sick of a fever. --Mark i.
                                                                              30.
  
                     Behold them that are sick with famine. --Jer. xiv.
                                                                              18.
  
      2. Affected with, or attended by, nausea; inclined to vomit;
            as, sick at the stomach; a sick headache.
  
      3. Having a strong dislike; disgusted; surfeited; -- with of;
            as, to be sick of flattery.
  
                     He was not so sick of his master as of his work.
                                                                              --L'Estrange.
  
      4. Corrupted; imperfect; impaired; weakned.
  
                     So great is his antipathy against episcopacy, that,
                     if a seraphim himself should be a bishop, he would
                     either find or make some sick feathers in his wings.
                                                                              --Fuller.
  
      {Sick bay} (Naut.), an apartment in a vessel, used as the
            ship's hospital.
  
      {Sick bed}, the bed upon which a person lies sick.
  
      {Sick berth}, an apartment for the sick in a ship of war.
  
      {Sick headache} (Med.), a variety of headache attended with
            disorder of the stomach and nausea.
  
      {Sick list}, a list containing the names of the sick.
  
      {Sick room}, a room in which a person lies sick, or to which
            he is confined by sickness.
  
      Note: [These terms, sick bed, sick berth, etc., are also
               written both hyphened and solid.]
  
      Syn: Diseased; ill; disordered; distempered; indisposed;
               weak; ailing; feeble; morbid.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sicker \Sick"er\, Siker \Sik"er\, adv.
      Surely; certainly. [Obs.]
  
               Believe this as siker as your creed.      --Chaucer.
  
               Sicker, Willye, thou warnest well.         --Spenser.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sicker \Sick"er\, v. i. [AS. sicerian.] (Mining)
      To percolate, trickle, or ooze, as water through a crack.
      [Also written {sigger}, {zigger}, and {zifhyr}.] [Prov. Eng.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sicker \Sick"er\, Siker \Sik"er\, a. [OE. siker; cf. OS. sikur,
      LG. seker, D. zeker, Dan. sikker, OHG. sihhur, G. sicher; all
      fr. L. securus. See {Secure}, {Sure}.]
      Sure; certain; trusty. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.] --Burns.
  
               When he is siker of his good name.         --Chaucer.
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