sea-sickness
Nausea and vomiting induced by the motion of a ship at sea.
| 1625 Purchas Pilgrims iii. 926 marg., Sea sicknesse whence. 1633 T. Stafford Pac. Hib. ii. xxvii. 266 When his sea⁓sicknesse was past, he lodged in the Earles house. 1785 Liberal Amer. I. 141 Should I be attacked with the sea⁓sickness, I shall be unfit for..any thing. 1819 Byron Juan ii. xiii, The best of remedies is a beef-steak Against sea⁓sickness. 1844 Dickens Mart. Chuz. xv, Martin was too far gone in the lassitude of sea-sickness. |
| fig. 1706 E. Ward Wooden World Diss. (1708) 8 This Pride of his, is the only Sea-sickness that he's plagu'd with. |
| attrib. 1865 Bp. Wilberforce Let. in A. J. Wilberforce Life (1882) III. vi. 159 All was ready for my start to Cannes, down even to the sea-sickness powders. 1955 E. Blishen Roaring Boys iii. 151 His sea-sickness pills he carried in a little phial. 1973 H. Nielsen Severed Key i. 12 Find the seasickness pills in the first aid kit in the forward locker. |