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remained at Naples until the beginning of 1806, when, in 
revenge for the part taken against France in the preceding 
autumn, they were once more compelled to take refuge in 
Sicily. Here they were threatened by their successors, 
Joseph Buonaparte and Murat, with a descent; and the 
acquisition of Sicily was, as appeared from the British nego- 
ciation at Paris in 1806, a .first rate object with Napoleon. 
But an attempt at invasion, made in September 1810, was 
baffled by the British troops. Sicily remained safe; and in 
1815, the overthrow of Murat by the Austrians, led to the 
restoration of the legitimate family to the throne of Naples, 
which they continue to possess. The royal prerogative, 
is, since the failure of the revolution, quite unlimited. 
SICK, adj. [Goth, sinks; Sax. peoc; old Engl. seke. 
“ [He] them hath holpen, when that they were seke." 
Chaucer, C. T. Prol.] Afflicted with disease: with of before 
the disease.—O Cassius, I am sick of many griefs. Shak¬ 
speare. —Disordered in the organs of digestion; ill in the 
stomach; corrupted. 
What we oft do best; 
By sick intrepreters, or weak ones, is 
Not ours, or not allow'd: what worst, as oft 
Hitting a grosser quality, is cried up 
For our best act. Shakspeare. 
Disgusted. 
Whv will you break the sabbath of my days, 
Now sick alike of envy and of praise ? Pope. 
To SICK, v. n. To sicken; to take a disease. Not in use. 
A little time before 
Our great grandsire Edward sick'd and died. Shakspeare. 
To SICKEN, v. a. To make sick; to disease. 
Why should one earth, one clime, one stream, one breath. 
Raise this to strength, and sicken that to death ? Prior. 
To weaken; to impair. 
Kinsmen of mine have 
By this so sicken'd their estates, that never 
They shall abound as formerly. Shakspeare. 
To SICKEN, v. To grow sick; to fall into disease. 
—The judges that sat upon the jail, and those that attended, 
sickened upon it, and died. Bacon. —To be satiated; to be 
filled to disgust. 
Though the treasure 
Of nature’s germins tumble all together, 
Ev’n till destruction sicken, answer me 
To what I ask you. Shakspeare. 
To be disgusted, or disordered with abhorrence. 
The ghosts repine at violated night, 
And curse th’ invading sun, and sicken at the sight. Dryden. 
To grow weak; to decay ; to languish. 
So sicken warning moons too near the sun. 
And blunt fheirerescents on the edge of day. Dry den. 
SICKER, adj. [Written also siker; Su. Goth, siker, 
seker; Germ, sicker; Welsh, sicer; Irish, sokair; Lat. 
securusi] Sure; certain; firm. Obsolete. Retained in 
our northern word siclcerly. 
Being some honest curate, or some vicar, 
Content with little in condition sicker. Spenser , 
SICKER, adv. Surely; certainly. Obsolete. 
Sicker thou’s but a lazy loord, 
And rekes much of thy swink. 
That with fond terms and witless words. 
To bleer mine eyes do’st think. Spenser. 
SICKERLY, adv. Surely; a northern word. —That 
men may more sickerly be evil. Pobinsoji. 
SICKERNESS, s. Security. Obsolete. 
Lightly she leaped, as a wight forlore. 
From her dull horse, in desperate distresse. 
And to her feet betooke her doubtful sickerness. Spenser. 
SICKERSREUT, a village of Germany, in Franconia; 
3 miles south-east of Bavreuth, remarkable only for a mineral 
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spring resorted to for the relief of gout, rheumatism, and 
gravel. 
SI'CKISH, adj. Somewhat sick; inclined to be sick.— 
Not the body only, but the mind too, which commonly 
follows the temper of the body, is sickish and indisposed. 
SICKLAGULLY, a celebrated pass in the range of hills 
which separate Bengal from Bahar; about 18 miles north- 
by-west from Rajemal. It was formerly fortified, but never 
seems to have been of much utility, as it has been frequently 
taken; and there are several other passes in the hills. It 
would, however, delay an enemy for some time if properly 
guarded. It is situated on the south-west side of the Ganges, 
in Lat. 25. 12. N. long. 87. 40. E. 
SICKLE, s. [pcol, Sax.; sicket, Dutch, from seca/e, 
or sicula, Latin.] The hook with which corn is cut; a 
reaping-hook, with a serrated edge. 
O’er whom Time gently shakes his wings of down, 
Till with his silent sickle they are mown. Dryden. 
SICKLED, adj. Supplied with a sickle; carrying a 
sickle. 
When autumn’s yellow lustre gilds the world. 
And tempts the sickled swain into the field. Thomson. 
SICKLEWORT, s. [pcol-jijqic, Sax.] A plant, 
SICKLEMAN, or Si'ckler, s. A reaper. 
You sunburnt sicklemen, of August weary. 
Come hither from the furrow, and be merry. Shakspeare. 
Their sicklers reap the corn another sows. Sandys. 
SICKLINESS, s. Disposition to sickness; habitual 
disease. 
Impute 
His words to wayward sickliness and age. Shakspeare. 
SICKLINGHALL, a village of England, West Riding 
of Yorkshire ; 2f miles west of Wetherby. 
SICKLY, adv. Not in health. 
We wear our health but sickly in his life, 
Which in his death were perfect. Shakspeare. 
SICKLY, adj. Not healthy; not sound ; not well; 
somewhat disordered. 
Time seems not now beneath his years to stoop, 
Nor do his wings with sickly feathers droop. Dryden. 
When on my sickly couch I lay, 
Impatient both of night and day. 
Then Stella ran to my relief. SwiJ't. 
Faint; weak; languid. 
The moon grows sickly at the sight of day, 
And early cocks have summon’d me away. Dryden. 
To SICKLY, v. a. To make diseased; to taint with the 
hue of disease. 
The native hue of resolution 
Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought. Shakspeare. 
SICKNESS, 5 . State of being diseased, 
I do lament the sickness of the king, 
As loth to lose him. Shakspeare. 
Trust not too much your now resistless charms; 
Those age or sickness soon or late disarms. Pope. 
Disorder in the organs of digestion. 
SICKREE. There are several places of this name in 
Hindosfan. 
SICON, a settlement of Cuba; 125 miles west-south-west 
of Havannah. 
SICU-LEUVU, a river of Chili, in the province of Maule, 
which runs south, and forms the lake of Huenchun. 
SICULI, in Ancient Geography, a people originally of 
Dalmatia, who established themselves in Italy about the 16th 
century B. C. They formed a numerous nation, and had 
possession of a considerable extent of country ; as they 
peopled Umbria, Sabina, Latium, and all the cantons, the 
occupiers of which were afterwards known under the name 
of Opici. The Siculi passed into Sicily, and gave it their 
name. This event is said to have taken place, according to 
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