Ill

King James Dictionary

ILL, n.

1. Bad or evil, in a general sense contrary to good, physical or moral applied to things evil wicked wrong iniquitous as, his ways are : he sets an example. 2. Producing evil or misfortune as an star or planet. 3. Bad evil unfortunate as an end an fate. 4. Unhealthy insalubrious as an air or climate. 5. Cross crabbed surly peevish as nature temper. 6. Diseased disordered sick or indisposed applied to persons as, the man is : he has been a long time he is of a fever. 7. Diseased impaired as an state of health. 8. Discordant harsh disagreeable as an sound. 9. Homely ugly as looks, or an countenance. 10. Unfavorable suspicious as when we say, this affair bears an look or aspect. 11. Rude unpolished as breeding manners. 12. Not proper not regular or legitimate as an expression in grammar.

ILL, n. Wickedness depravity evil.

Strong virtue, like strong nature, struggles still,

Exerts itself and then throws off the

1. Misfortune calamity evil disease pain whatever annoys or impairs happiness, or prevents success.

Who can all sense of other's ills escape,

Is but a brute at beat in human shape.

ILL, adv. Not well not rightly or perfectly.

He is at ease.

1. Not easily with pain or difficulty. He is able to sustain the burden.

Ill bears the sex the youthful lovers' fate,

When just approaching to the nuptial state.

ILL, prefixed to participles of the present tense, and denoting evil or wrong, may be considered as a noun governed by the participle, or as making a part of a compound word as an meaning man, an designing man, an boding hour that is, a man meaning an hour boding It is more consonant, however, to the genius of our language, to treat these and similar words as compounds. In some cases, as before the participles of intransitive verbs, must be considered as a part of the compound, as in When used before the perfect participle, is to be considered as an adverb, or modifying word, or to be treated as a part of the compound as in In these and all similar connections, it might be well to unite the two words in a compound by a hyphen. As may be prefixed to almost any participle, it is needless to attempt to collect a list of such words for insertion.

Webster's Dictionary

(1): ( n.) The fleshy flap that hangs below the beak of a fowl; a wattle.

(2): ( n.) A two-wheeled frame for transporting timber.

(3): ( n.) The radiating, gill-shaped plates forming the under surface of a mushroom.

(4): ( n.) The flesh under or about the chin.

(5): ( n.) A measure of capacity, containing one fourth of a pint.

(6): ( n.) A young woman; a sweetheart; a flirting or wanton girl.

(7): ( n.) The ground ivy (Nepeta Glechoma); - called also gill over the ground, and other like names.

(8): ( n.) Malt liquor medicated with ground ivy.

(9): ( n.) A leech.

(10): ( n.) An organ for aquatic respiration; a branchia.

(11): ( n.) A woody glen; a narrow valley containing a stream.

(12): ( n.) One of the combs of closely ranged steel pins which divide the ribbons of flax fiber or wool into fewer parallel filaments.

Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words

1: Κακός (Strong'S #2556 — Adjective — kakos — kak-os' )

"bad," is used in the neuter as a noun in  Romans 13:10 , and translated "ill." See Bad.

 John 5:29Evil