turn-sick, a. and n. Obs. exc. dial.
(ˈtɜːnsɪk)
Also 5–6 -seke, -sycke, -sicke.
[f. turn v. + sick a.]
† A. adj. Affected with vertigo; giddy; dizzy.
| c 1440 Promp. Parv. 507/1 Turnseke, vertiginosus. 1534 Whitinton Tullyes Offices i. (1540) 49 We here tell of Lysander of Lacedemony, a turnesycke person and a man that myght abyde all paynes. 1626 Bacon Sylva §795 If a Man see another turn swiftly, and long; Or if he look upon Wheels that turne, Himselfe waxeth Turne-sick. 1657 J. Watts Dipper Sprinkled 6 Running round in a ring until you be turn-sick and giddy-headed. |
| fig. a 1603 T. Cartwright Confut. Rhem. N.T. (1618) 179 You are fallen out with your selues, and turne-sick with the maze of your own inuentions. Ibid. 382 These turnesick Iesuites make their note cleane contrary to the text. a 1617 Bayne On Eph. (1658) 104 An escape of a turn-sick brain blinded with wilfulness. 1664 J. C. Praxis Lat. Syntax 130 Divers teachers, so giddy turn-sick. |
† b. turn-sick giddiness, vertigo. Obs.
| 1577 B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. iv. (1586) 192 The water of this hearbe..helpeth the turnesicke giddinesse of the heade. |
B. n.
† 1. a. Vertigo, swimming in the head; also, staggers in the horse. Obs.
| c 1450 in Vicary's Anat. (1888) App. ix. 229 Be-hynde þ⊇ eres er twa vayns þat er gude to be opynd for turnseke and for scall, & alsso for euyll sight. 1565 Blundevil Horsemanship iv. xvi. (1580) 8 In the ventricles or celles of the braine..do breede the turnesicke, or staggers. 1592 in Vicary's Anat. (1888) App. ix. 228 If thowe lett blode of thoo, His syght shall neuer fale, And heles of torne-seke, and of scale. |
2. A disease caused by an encysted worm in the brain of the sheep; the gid or sturdy. dial. Cf. turn n. 3.
| 1834 Youatt Cattle 294 The sheep is subject to a disease strangely termed turnsick, in which the animal goes round and round. 1837 ― Sheep 391 The turnsick is not so frequent as it used to be thirty or forty years ago. 1844 Stephens Bk. Farm III. 877 There is a disease in sheep called sturdy or turnsick. 1870 Rolleston Anim. Life 136 The cause of the disease commonly known as the ‘sturdy’, ‘gid’, ‘staggers’, or ‘turn-sick’. |
Hence † turnsickness = B. 1. Obs.
| 1559 Morwyng Evonym. 137 The headache, fallinge sicknesse, swindle or turnsicknes. |