turn-sick
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See also: turnsick
English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]turn-sick (comparative more turn-sick, superlative most turn-sick)
- (obsolete) giddy
- 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
- So if a man see another turn swiftly and long, or if he look upon wheels that turn, himself waxeth turn-sick.
References
[edit]- “turn-sick”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.