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Crop-sick. World English Historical Dictionary

Crop-sick. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1893, rev. 2025. Crop-sick a. Obs. exc. dial. [f. CROP sb. 1–2 + SICK a.] Disordered in stomach, esp. as a result of excess in eating and drinking. Often fig.

1 1624.  Middleton, Game at Chess, III. ii. My merit doth begin to be crop-sick For want of other titles.

2 a. 1625.  Boys, Wks. (1629), 400. People, who being crop-sicke, doe not hunger after the righteousnesse of Gods kingdome, nor thirst after the water of life.

3 1703.  Oliver, in Phil. Trans., XXIII. 1408. A Prussian Boor; who being Crop-sick … thrust the Haft of his Knife down his Throat.

4 1748.  Richardson, Clarissa (1811), VI. 350. A man in ill health, and crop-sick.

5 1845.  Blackw. Mag., LVIII. 369. In his appeal from Philip drunk to Philip sober, Philip cannot, crop-sick, but nauseate the thought.

6 1878.  Cumbrld. Gloss., Crop-sick, disordered in the stomach.

7   Hence Crop-sickness.

8 1654.  R. Whitlock, Ζωοτομια, 126. One that scarce knew any but Crop-sicknesse.

9 1788.  V. Knox, Winter Even., I. III. ii. 241. As soon as they were recovered of their own crop-sickness.

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