Meanings
adjectiveturn-sick (comparative more turn-sick, superlative most turn-sick)
comparative more turn-sick · superlative most turn-sick
- obsoletegiddy
So if a man see another turn swiftly and long, or if he look upon wheels that turn, himself waxeth turn-sick.
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
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