Search Result for "sick bay":

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

36 Moby Thesaurus words for "sick bay": VA hospital, asylum, base hospital, clinic, community hospital, convalescent home, convalescent hospital, evacuation hospital, field hospital, general hospital, home, hospital, infirmary, inpatient clinic, maison de sante, mental hospital, nursing home, osteopathic hospital, outpatient clinic, policlinic, polyclinic, private hospital, proprietary hospital, public hospital, rest home, sanatorium, sickbed, sickroom, special hospital, station hospital, surgical hospital, teaching hospital, veterans hospital, voluntary hospital, ward, well-baby clinic