Sick"er*ly, Sik"er*ly, adv.
Definition: Surely; securely. [Obs.] But sikerly, withouten any fable. Chaucer.
Sick"er, v. i. Etym: [AS. sicerian.] (Mining)
Definition: To percolate, trickle, or ooze, as water through a crack. [Also written sigger, zigger, and zifhyr.] [Prov. Eng.]
Sick"er, Sik"er, a. Etym: [OE. siker; cf. OS. sikur, LG. seker, D. zeker, Dan. sikker, OHG. sihhur, G. sicher; all fr. L. securus. See Secure, Sure.]
Definition: Sure; certain; trusty. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Burns. When he is siker of his good name. Chaucer.
Sick"er, Sik"er, adv.
Definition: Surely; certainly. [Obs.] Believe this as siker as your creed. Chaucer. Sicker, Willye, thou warnest well. Spenser.
Sick, a. [Compar. Sicker; superl. Sickest.] Etym: [OE. sek, sik, ill, AS. seóc; akin to OS. siok, seoc, OFries. siak, D. ziek, G. siech, OHG. sioh, Icel. sj, 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.
Sick, n.
Definition: Sickness. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Sick, v. i.
Definition: To fall sick; to sicken. [Obs.] Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
7 January 2025
(adverb) in an uninformative manner; “‘I can’t tell you when the manager will arrive,’ he said rather uninformatively”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
