| sickl | My desire to become a doctor grew out of looking after my sickly brother. |
| sickl | The liquor gave off a sickly odor. |
| sickle | (n) an edge tool for cutting grass or crops; has a curved blade and a short handle, Syn. reap hook, reaping hook |
| sickle alfalfa | (n) European medic naturalized in North America having yellow flowers and sickle-shaped pods, Syn. sickle medick, Medicago falcata, sickle lucerne |
| sickle cell | (n) an abnormal red blood cell that has a crescent shape and an abnormal form of hemoglobin |
| sickle-cell anemia | (n) a congenital form of anemia occurring mostly in blacks; characterized by abnormal blood cells having a crescent shape, Syn. drepanocytic anemia, sickle-cell disease, crescent-cell anaemia, sickle-cell anaemia, drepanocytic anaemia, crescent-cell anemia |
| sickle feather | (n) one of the long curved tail feathers of a rooster |
| sicklepod | (n) cosmopolitan tropical herb or subshrub with yellow flowers and slender curved pods; a weed; sometimes placed in genus Cassia, Syn. Senna obtusifolia, Cassia tora |
| sicklepod | (n) North American rock cress having very long curved pods, Syn. Arabis Canadensis |
| sickleweed golden aster | (n) a variety of golden aster |
| Sickle | n. [ OE. sikel, AS. sicol; akin to D. sikkel, G. sichel, OHG. sihhila, Dan. segel, segl, L. secula, fr. secare to cut; or perhaps from L. secula. See Saw a cutting instrument. ] When corn has once felt the sickle, it has no more benefit from the sunshine. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
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| Sicklebill | n. (Zool.) |
| Sickled | a. Furnished with a sickle. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Sickleman | n.; You sunburned sicklemen, of August weary. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Sickler | n. One who uses a sickle; a sickleman; a reaper. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Sickless | a. Free from sickness. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ] Give me long breath, young beds, and sickless ease. Marston. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Sicklewort | n. [ AS. sicolwyrt. ] (Bot.) |
| Sicklied | a. Made sickly. See Sickly, v. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Sickliness | n. The quality or state of being sickly. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Sickly | adv. In a sick manner or condition; ill. [ 1913 Webster ] My people sickly [ with ill will ] beareth our marriage. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ] |