halter-sick, n. and a.
[prob. originating in an error for prec.]
A. n. = halter-sack.
| 1617 Minsheu Ductor, An Halter-sicke, or one that the gallowes groanes for, a knauish boy. |
B. adj. (Cf. death-sick.)
| 1820 W. Tooke tr. Lucian I. 511 You..villainous, infamous halter-sick miscreant. |