sickless 
Give me long breath, young beds, and sicklessr. ease. 
Marston, Sophouisba, iv. 1. 
SlCkleweed (sik'1-wed), . Same as si<-l;lnrnrt. 
Sicklewort (sik'1-wert), H. The self-heal, Itni- 
iicUn (I'l-iiiicHii) vulgaris: from the form of the 
flower as seen in profile. See Prunella'*, 2. 
sicklify (sik'li-fi), v. t. ; pret. and pp. sicklijinl, 
ppr. sieklifying. [< sickly + -fy.~\ To make sick- 
ly or sick'ish. [Vulgar.] 
All I felt was giddy ; I wasn't to say hungry, only weak 
and sicklitied. 
Slayhetc, London Labour and London Poor, II. 88. 
sicklily (sik'li-li), adv. In a sickly manner; so 
as to appear sickly or enfeebled. [Bare.] 
His will swayed tiddily from side to side. 
Brmming, Sordello, il. 
sickliness (sik'li-nes), n. The state or quality 
of being sickly, in any sense ; tendency to be 
sick or to cause sickness ; sickly appearance or 
demeanor. 
I do beseech your majesty, impute his words 
To wayward sicklinesg and age in him. 
Shalr., Eich. II., ii. 1. 142. 
The sickliness, healthfulness, and fruitfulness of the sev- 
eral years. Graunt. 
sick-list (sik ' list), n. A list of persons, espe- 
cially in military or naval service, who are dis- 
abled by sickness. Sick-lists in the army are contain- 
ed in the sick-report books of the companies of each regi- 
ment, and are forwarded monthly, with particulars as to 
each case, to the authorities. On a man-of-war the sick- 
list is comprised in the daily report (the sick-report) sub- 
mitted by the senior medical officer to the commander. 
See also binnacle-list. 
Grant's army, worn out by that trying campaign, and 
still more by the climate than by battle, counted many on 
the sick-list, and needed rest. 
Comte tie Para, Civil War in America (trans.), I. 500. 
Can we carry on any summer campaign without having a 
large portion of our men on the tick-list? 
The Century, XXXVI. 676. 
To be or go on the sick-list, to be or become invalided, 
or disabled from exertion of any kind by sickness. 
sick-listed (sik'lis'ted), a. Entered on the sick- 
list; reported sick. 
Sickly (sik'li), a. [< ME. sikly, siklielie, sekli, 
sukh (= D. zieketijk = Icel. sjtikligr = Sw. sjuk- 
lig = Va,n.sy!/elig); <sick* + -ly 1 .] I. Habitu- 
ally ailing or indisposed ; not sound or strong 
as regards health or natural vigor; liable to be 
or become sick: as, a sickly person, animal, or 
plant ; a sickly family. 
Ywis thou nedeles 
Conseylest me that sikliche I me feyne, 
For I am sik in ernest, douteles. 
Chaucer, Troilus, ii. 1528. 
She was sickly from her childhood until about the age 
of fifteen. Saifl, Death of Stella. 
While he lay recovering there, his wife 
Bore him another son, a sickly one. 
Tennyson, Enoch Arden. 
2. Pertaining to or arising from a state of im- 
paired health ; characteristic of an unhealthy 
condition : as, a sickly complexion ; the sickly 
look of a person, an animal, or a tree. 
And he smiled a kind of sickly smile, and curled up on the 
floor. Bret Harte, Society upon the Stanislaus. 
3f. Pertaining to sickness or the sick; suitable 
for a sick person. 
Give me my Gowne and Cap, though, and set mee charily 
in my sickly chaire. Brume, The Sparagus Garden, iv. 6. 
When on my sickly couch I lay, 
Impatient both of night and day, . . . 
Then Stella ran to my relief. 
Swift, To Stella visiting him in his Sickness. 
4. Marked by the presence or prevalence of 
sickness : as, a sickly town ; the season is very 
sickly. 
Physic but prolongs thy sickly days. 
Shak., Hamlet, iii. 3. 96. 
Under date of May 4, 168S, by which time the weather 
was no doubt exceedingly hot, Capt. Stanley writes, "Wee 
haue a Sickley Shipp." If. and Q., 7th ser., VI. 502. 
5. Causing sickness, in any sense ; producing 
malady, disease, nausea, or disgust ; debilitat- 
ing; nauseating; mawkish: as, a sickly climate ; 
sickly fogs ; sickly fare. 
Prithee, let ns entertain some other talk ; 
This is as sickly to me as faint weather. 
Beau, and Fl., Captain, i. 2. 
Freedom of mind was like the morning sun, as it still 
struggles with the sickly dews and vanishing spectres of 
darkness. Bancroft, Hist U. 8., II. 458. 
6. Manifesting a disordered or enfeebled con- 
dition of mind ; mentally unsound or weak : as, 
sickly sentimentality. 
I plead for no sickly lenity towards the fallen in guilt. 
Channiny, Perfect Life, p. 76. 
7. Faint; languid; feeble; appearing as if 
sick. 
The moon grows sickly at the sight of day. Dryden. 
5612 
Versification in a dead language is an exotic, a far- 
fetched, costly, sickly imitation of that which elsewhere 
may be found in healthful and spontaneous perfection. 
Macmday, Milton. 
= Syn. 1. l/nwell, 111, etc. See sicW. 
sickly (sik'li), adv. [< sickly, a.'] In a sick, 
sickly, or feeble manner; so as to show ill 
health or debility. 
Bring me word, boy, if thy lord look well, 
For he went sickly forth. Shak., J. C., ii. 4. 14. 
Altho' I am come sately, I am come xickly. 
BoweU, Letters, I. ii. 1. 
sickly (sik'li), v . t. ; pret. and pp. sicklied, ppr. 
sicklying. [< sickly, .] To make sickly ; give 
a sickly or unhealthy appearance to. [Rare.] 
Thus the native hue of resolution 
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought. 
Shak., Hamlet, iii. 1. 85. 
They [meteors] flung their spectral glow upon the 
strangely cut sails of the vessel, upon her rigging and 
spars, sickling [properly sicklying} all things to their starry 
color. W. C. JtusseU, Death Ship, xi. 
sickness (sik'nes), n. [< ME. siknesse, seknesse, 
secnesse, sykenesse, sekenesse, < AS. sedcness, sick- 
ness, < seoc, sick: see sick 1 and -ness.} 1. The 
state of being sick or suffering from disease ; 
a diseased condition of the system ; illness; ill 
health. 
I pray yow for that ye knowe wele that I have grete 
fckeneste, that he will telle yow what deth I shall deye, 
yef he knowe It Merlin (E. E. T. S.), L 51. 
I do lament the sickness of the king. 
SAa*.,Eich. III., ii. 2. 9. 
Trust not too much your now resistless charms, 
Those age or sickness soon or late disarms. 
Pope, To Miss Blount, 1. 60. 
2. A disease; a malady; a particular kind of 
disorder. 
He that first cam-doun in to the sisterne, aftlrthemou- 
yng of the watir, was maad hool of what euere sUmesse he 
was holdun. Wyd\f, John v. 4. 
Of our soul's sicknesses, which are sins. 
Donne, Letters, xxvii. 
His sicknesses . . . made It necessary for him not to stir 
from his chair. Bp. Fell, Hammond. 
3. A derangement or disturbance of the stom- 
ach, manifesting itself in nausea, retching, and 
vomiting: distinctively called sickness of the 
stomach. 4. A disordered, distracted, or en- 
feebled state of anything. 
A kind of will or testament which argues a great sickness 
in his judgement that makes it Shak., T. of A., v. 1. 31. 
Look upon my steadiness, and scorn not 
The sickness of my fortune. 
Ford, Broken Heart, v. 2. 
Ceylon sickness. Same as beriberi. Comltial sick- 
ness*. See wmitial. Country sickness. Same as 
nostalgia. Creeping sickness, a chronic form of ergot- 
ism. Falling sickness. See falling-sickness. Yellow 
sickness of the hyacinth. See hyacinth, 1. 
Wakker has recently described a disease in the hyacinth 
known in Holland as the yellow sickness, the characteristic 
symptom of which is the presence of yellow slimy masses 
of Bacteria in the vessels. De Bary, Fungi (trans.), p. 482. 
= 8yn. 1 and 2. Ailment, etc. See illness and c*i. 2. 
Disorder, distemper, complaint. 
Sick-report (sik're-port"), n. 1. A sick-list. 
2. A report rendered at regular or stated inter- 
vals, as daily or monthly, by a military or naval 
surgeon to the proper authority, giving an ac- 
count of the sick and wounded under his charge. 
Sick-room (sik'rom), . A room occupied by 
one who is sick. 
Art . . . enables us to enjoy summer in winter, poetry 
among prosaic circumstances, the country in the town, 
woodland and river in the sick-room. 
Fortnightly Jim., N. S., XLIII. 222. 
sick-thoughted(sik'tha'ted), a. Full of sick 
or sickly thoughts ; love-sick. [Rare.] 
Sick-thouyhted Venus makes amain unto him, 
And like a bold-faced suitor 'gins to woo him. 
Shak., Venus and Adonis, 1. 5. 
siclatount, n. See ciclaton. 
sicleH, [< F. side, < LL. siclus, a shekel : 
see shekel.] Same as shekel. 
The holy mother brought five sides, and a pair of turtle- 
doves, to redeem the Lamb of God from the anathema. 
Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), I. 64. 
8icle 2 t, -A- Middle English form of sickle. 
siclike (sik'lik), a. and adv. [A Sc. form of 
suchlike.'] Of the same kind, or in the same 
manner ; similar or similarly. [Scotch.] 
sicomoret, . An obsolete spelling of sycamore. 
sicophantt, n. An obsolete spelling of syco- 
phant. 
sicoriet, An obsolete spelling of chicory. 
sicsac, ziczac (sik'sak, zik'zak), n. [Egyp- 
tian name, prob. imitative.] The Egyptian 
courser, crocodile-bird, or black-headed plover, 
Plitvianus eegyptiiis (formerly and better known 
as Charadrius melanocejihahix). It is supposed to 
be the classic trochilus, a distinction also attached by 
some to the spur-winged plover Hoplopterus spinosus. 
side 
Both are common Nile birdsof similar habits, and enough 
alike to be uncritically confounded. See cuts under Plu- 
vifinus and spitr-winged. 
Siculian (si-kii'li-an), a. and n. [< L. Kiriili, 
< Or. 2iKf'/oi, Sicilians, Siculians: see Sicilian.] 
I. a. Of or pertaining to the Siculi, an ancient 
people, probably of Aryan race, of central and 
southern Italy, who at a very early date colo- 
nized and gave name to the island of Sicily. 
II. n. One of the Siculi ; an ancient Sicilian 
of the race from whom the island was named. 
Compare Sicanian, Siceliot. 
Siculo-Arabian (sik"u-16-a-ra'bi-an), a. Modi- 
fied Arabian or Arabic as found in Sicily: 
noting some Sicilian art. 
Siculo-Moresque(sik"u-16-mo-re8k'), a. Modi- 
fied Moresque or Moorish as found in Sicily : 
noting some Sicilian art. 
Siculo-Punic (sik"u-16-pu'nik), a. At once Si- 
cilian and Carthaginian or Punic: especially 
noting art so characterized, as, for instance, 
the coins of Carthage executed by Sicilian- 
Greek artists and presenting Sicilian types. 
We have still to mention the main characteristics of the 
true Siculo-Punic coins that is, those actually struck by 
the Carthaginians in Sicily. Kneyc. Brit., XVII. 639. 
Sicyoidese (sis-i-oi'de-e), n. pi. [NL. (Endli- 
cher, 1836), < Sicyos + -mdex.] A tribe of 
polypetalous plants of the order Cucurbitaceie 
and series Cremosjtermex. it is characterized by 
flowers with from three to five commonly united stamens, 
and a one-celled ovary with a solitary pendulous ovule, 
and includes genera, natives of warmer parts of America, 
or more widely distributed in the type Sicyos (see also 
Sechimn). The others, except Sicyosperma, a prostrate 
Texan annual, are high climbing perennials or shrubby 
vines of Mexico and further south, bearing heart-shaped 
leaves and fleshy fruit. 
Sicyonian (sis-i-6'ni-an), a. and n. [< L. Sicy- 
onius (Gr. 2cu(iv>f),'< Sicyon, < Gr. Ztitvuv, Si- 
cyon (see def.).] I. a. Of or pertaining to 
Sicyon, an ancient city of northern Pelopon- 
nesus in Greece, or its territory Sicyonia, cele- 
brated as an early and fruitful center of art- 
development. Also written Sikyoniaii. 
II. . A native or an inhabitant of Sicyon or 
Sicyonia. 
Sicyos (sis'i-os), n. [NL. (Linnaeus, 1737), < Gr. 
ainvof, a cucumber or gourd.] A genus of 
plants of the order Cucurbitacex, the gourd fam- 
ily, and type of the tribe Sicyoidcee. It is char- 
acterized by monoecious flowers, with broadly bell-shaped 
or flattened flve-toothed calyx, and five-parted wheel- 
shaped corolla, the stamens in the male flowers united into 
a short column bearing from two to five sessile curved or 
Hexuous anthers. The ovary in the female flowers is 
bristly orprickly, and is crowned with a short style divided 
into three stigmas, producing a small flattened coriaceous 
or woody fruit with acute or long-beaked apex, commonly 
set with many sharp needles, and filled by a single large 
seed. There are about 31 species, natives of warm parts 
of America, one, S. angulatus, extending to Kansas and 
Canada, found also in Australia and New Zealand. They 
are smooth or rough-hairy climbers, or sometimes prostrate 
herbs, and bear thin, angled leaves, three-cleft tendrils, 
and small flowers, the fertile commonly clustered at the 
base of a staminate raceme. For S. angulatus, see one- 
seeded or star cucumber, under cucumber. 
Sida (si'da), n. [NL. (Linnaeus, 1737), < Gr. 
aifiri, the "pomegranate, a water-lily, also, in 
Theophrastus, a plant of the genus Althsea or 
other malvaceous plant.] 1. A genus of poly- 
petalous plants of the order Malvaceee and tribe 
Malvese, type of the subtribe Sidese. It is char- 
acterized by solitary pendulous ovules and an ovary of a 
single ring of five or more carpels, which finally fall away 
from the axis and are each without appendages and inde- 
hiscent, or are sometimes at the summit two-valved, bris- 
tle-tipped or beaked. There are about 90 species, natives 
of warm climates, mostly American, with about 23 in Aus- 
tralia and 8 in Africa and Asia. They are either herbs or 
shrubs, generally downy or woolly, and bearing flowers 
sometimes large and variegated, but in most species small 
and white or yellow. Five or six American species are now 
naturalized as weeds in almost all warm countries, among 
which S. spinosa, a low yellow-flowered annual, extends 
north to New York and Iowa. Several species are known 
as Indian mallow; S. Napsea, a tall white-flowered plant 
with maple-like leaves, occasional in the eastern United 
States, is sometimes cultivated under the name Virginian 
mallow; S. rhombifolia (from its local use named Canary 
Island tea-plant), a species widely diffused in the tropics, 
with its variety retusa, yields a fiber considered suitable 
for cordage- and paper-making, which, from receiving at- 
tention in Australia, has been called Queensland hemp. 
2. In zool., the typical genus of Sididse. 
Siddow (sid'6), a. [Origin obscure; appar. 
based on seethe (pp. sodden), but the form of 
the termination -ow remains to be explained.] 
Soft ; pulpy. [Old and prov. Eng.] 
Theyl wriggle in and in, 
And eat like salt sea in his siddowe ribs. 
Marxian, Antonio and Mellida, II., iv. 2. 
In Gloucestershire, peas which become pulpy soft by 
boiling are then said to be siddow. 
Balliwell, Note to Marston. 
side 1 (s*id), n. and a. [< ME. side, sade, rarely 
Kithe, < AS. side = OS. sida = OFries. side = 
