(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

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English (GCIDE) v.0.53 Collaborative International Dictionary (GCIDE)

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. ] 1. A reaping instrument consisting of a steel blade curved into the form of a hook, and having a handle fitted on a tang. The sickle has one side of the blade notched, so as always to sharpen with a serrated edge. Cf. Reaping hook, under Reap. [ 1913 Webster ]

When corn has once felt the sickle, it has no more benefit from the sunshine. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Astron.) A group of stars in the constellation Leo. See Illust. of Leo. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sickle pod (Bot.), a kind of rock cress (Arabis Canadensis) having very long curved pods. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sicklebill

n. (Zool.) (a) Any one of three species of humming birds of the genus Eutoxeres, native of Central and South America. They have a long and strongly curved bill. Called also the sickle-billed hummer. (b) A curlew. (c) A bird of the genus Epimachus and allied genera. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sickled

a. Furnished with a sickle. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sickleman

n.; pl. Sicklemen One who uses a sickle; a reaper. [ 1913 Webster ]

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.) (a) A plant of the genus Coronilla (Coronilla scorpioides); -- so named from its curved pods. (b) The healall (Brunella vulgaris). [ 1913 Webster ]

Sicklied

a. Made sickly. See Sickly, v. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sickliness

n. The quality or state of being sickly. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sickly

v. t. To make sick or sickly; -- with over, and probably only in the past participle. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sentiments sicklied over . . . with that cloying heaviness into which unvaried sweetness is too apt to subside. Jeffrey. [ 1913 Webster ]

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