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   Sickly (?), a. [Compar. Sicklier (?); superl. Sickliest.]
   1. Somewhat sick; disposed to illness; attended with disease; as, “a sickly body”.
   
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   This physic but prolongs thy sickly days. Shak.
   
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   2. Producing, or tending to, disease; as, “a sickly autumn; a sickly climate”.  Cowper.
   
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   3. Appearing as if sick; weak; languid; pale.
   
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   The moon grows sickly at the sight of day. Dryden.
   
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   Nor torrid summer's sickly smile. Keble.
   
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   4. Tending to produce nausea; sickening; as, “a sickly smell; sickly sentimentality.”
   
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   Syn. -- Diseased; ailing; infirm; weakly; unhealthy; healthless; weak; feeble; languid; faint.
   
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   Sickly, adv. In a sick manner or condition; ill.
   
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   My people sickly [with ill will] beareth our marriage. Chaucer.
   
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   Sickly, v. t. To make sick or sickly; -- with over, and probably only in the past participle. [R.]
   
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   Sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought. Shak.
   
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   Sentiments sicklied over . . . with that cloying heaviness into which unvaried sweetness is too apt to subside. Jeffrey.
   
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