sick-bed
[sick a. Cf. MDu. siecbedde (Du. ziekbed), LG. sükbedde, MHG. siechbette (G. -bett), Sw. sjukbädd.]
A bed upon which a person lies ill.
| c 1425 Cursor M. 3632 (Trin.), Ar he deȝed in seke bed his benisoun he wolde him ȝyue. 1662 Strype in Lett. Lit. Men (Camden) 177 That is wont to bring you upon a sick bed. a 1673 Caryl in Spurgeon Treas. David cxvi. 2 If from a sick bed he be raised to health. 1705 Stanhope Paraphr. II. 297 The many fruitless Remorses, and broken Vows, of Affliction and Sick-beds. 1749 Fielding Tom Jones v. ii, Considered a sick-bed to be a convenient scene for lectures. 1837 Lockhart Scott I. ix. 301 Much exhausted with their attendance on a protracted sickbed. 1875 Jowett Plato (ed. 2) I. 98 Had not many a man better never get up from a sick bed? |
| attrib. 1730 Boston Mem. xi. 375 A design..that it might be a convenient sick-bed room. 1848 Thackeray Van. Fair xix, Sick-bed homilies and pious reflections are..out of place in mere story-books. |