D defs.my
Entry 6 senses · 3 variants Webster, 1913

Sickly

/sĭk'-lē/ · Sick·ly · IPA /ˈsɪkli/
01 a. Somewhat sick; disposed to illness; attended with disease; as, a sickly body.
  1. 1.
    Somewhat sick; disposed to illness; attended with disease; as, a sickly body.
    “This physic but prolongs thy sickly days.” Shak.
  2. 2.
    Producing, or tending to, disease; as, a sickly autumn; a sickly climate.
  3. 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. 4.
    Tending to produce nausea; sickening; as, a sickly smell; sickly sentimentality.
02 adv. In a sick manner or condition; ill.
  1. 1.
    In a sick manner or condition; ill.
    “My people sickly [with ill will] beareth our marriage.” Chaucer.
03 v. t. To make sick or sickly; -- with over, and probably only in the past participle.
  1. 1.
    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.