turn-sick

See also: turnsick

English

Adjective

turn-sick (comparative more turn-sick, superlative most turn-sick)

  1. (obsolete) giddy
    • Francis Bacon
      So if a man see another turn swiftly and long, or if he look upon wheels that turn, himself waxeth turn-sick.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for turn-sick in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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