turn-sick

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See also: turnsick

English

Adjective

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

  1. (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 ; rinted by J H 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.

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