Definition of "sicklying" []

• Present participle of sickly. (verb)

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• "Growing quite staid in manner, the weight of India adding gravity to his looks, sicklying his young face o'er with pale cast of thought."
• "And therefore West, after an hour of delightful _tête-à-tête_ in the charming little back parlor, stiffened himself up, his brow sicklying o'er with the pale cast of disagreeable thought, and began to make it."
• "They believe that on public occasions the chuprassies have sometimes the power of sicklying them o'er with the pale cast of neglect."