The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sick \Sick\, a. [Compar. Sicker; superl. Sickest.] [OE. sek, sik, ill, AS. se['o]c; akin to OS. siok, seoc, OFries. siak, D. ziek, G. siech, OHG. sioh, Icel. sj?kr, Sw. sjuk, Dan. syg, Goth. siuks ill, siukan to be ill.]
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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. Affected with, or attended by, nausea; inclined to vomit; as, sick at the stomach; a sick headache.
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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.
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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.
Bay \Bay\, n. [F. baie, fr. LL. baia. Of uncertain origin: cf. Ir. & Gael. badh or bagh bay, harbor, creek; Bisc. baia, baiya, harbor, and F. bayer to gape, open the mouth.]
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(Geog.) An inlet of the sea, usually smaller than a gulf, but of the same general character.
Note: The name is not used with much precision, and is often applied to large tracts of water, around which the land forms a curve; as, Hudson's Bay. The name is not restricted to tracts of water with a narrow entrance, but is used for any recess or inlet between capes or headlands; as, the Bay of Biscay.
A small body of water set off from the main body; as a compartment containing water for a wheel; the portion of a canal just outside of the gates of a lock, etc.
A recess or indentation shaped like a bay.
A principal compartment of the walls, roof, or other part of a building, or of the whole building, as marked off by the buttresses, vaulting, mullions of a window, etc.; one of the main divisions of any structure, as the part of a bridge between two piers.
A compartment in a barn, for depositing hay, or grain in the stalks.
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A kind of mahogany obtained from Campeachy Bay.
Sick bay, in vessels of war, that part of a deck appropriated to the use of the sick.
--Totten.
Wikipedia
A sick bay is a compartment in a ship, or a section of another organisation, such as a school or college used for medical purposes.
The sick bay will contain the ship's medicine chest, which may be divided into separate cabinets, such as a refrigerator for medicines requiring cold storage and a locked cabinet for controlled substances such as morphine. The sick bay and the medicine chest should be kept locked, with the keys only being available to the medical officer and the ship's master.
The term is also applied ashore by the United States Navy and Marine Corps to treatment clinics on naval stations and Marine bases.
Sick bays appear in popular science fiction franchises, such as Battlestar Galactica and Star Trek, as the medical facility on board a starship.
Usage examples of "sick bay".
In the sick bay he concocted some type of delayed-action chemical fuse that would give off plenty of smoke but very little flame--there are a dozen combinations of acids and chemicals that can bring this about, and our friend will be a highly trained expert well versed in all of them.
Translated, that meant the guards who had done the shooting had been roughly handled and were now in sick bay with the two men they had shot.
They went, some of them, into the sick bay to ask how their friends were feeling.
Communication with Tahiti was all but impossible in those days, and not once, during the twenty years that had passed since I had embraced Tehani in the Pandora's sick bay, had I had word of her, or of our child.
This put him at a disadvantage, and in the ensuing clash he was cut on the arm and unceremoniously dumped off the yard to land ignominiously in the side netting where some older hands, men, had to help him out and pat him down before his fellows could take him to the sick bay to have his wound attended to.