'Sick bay' definitions:

Definition of 'Sick bay'

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  • 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.]
  • 1. (Geog.) An inlet of the sea, usually smaller than a gulf, but of the same general character. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. A recess or indentation shaped like a bay. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. A compartment in a barn, for depositing hay, or grain in the stalks. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. A kind of mahogany obtained from Campeachy Bay. [1913 Webster]
  • Sick bay, in vessels of war, that part of a deck appropriated to the use of the sick. --Totten. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Sick bay'

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  • 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.]
  • 1. Affected with disease of any kind; ill; indisposed; not in health. See the Synonym under Illness. [1913 Webster]
  • Simon's wife's mother lay sick of a fever. --Mark i. 30. [1913 Webster]
  • Behold them that are sick with famine. --Jer. xiv. 18. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Affected with, or attended by, nausea; inclined to vomit; as, sick at the stomach; a sick headache. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. Having a strong dislike; disgusted; surfeited; -- with of; as, to be sick of flattery. [1913 Webster]
  • He was not so sick of his master as of his work. --L'Estrange. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. Corrupted; imperfect; impaired; weakned. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 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.] [1913 Webster]
  • Syn: Diseased; ill; disordered; distempered; indisposed; weak; ailing; feeble; morbid. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'sick bay'

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