a. Obs. exc. dial. [f. CROP sb. 1–2 + SICK a.] Disordered in stomach, esp. as a result of excess in eating and drinking. Often fig.
1624. Middleton, Game at Chess, III. ii. My merit doth begin to be crop-sick For want of other titles.
a. 1625. Boys, Wks. (1629), 400. People, who being crop-sicke, doe not hunger after the righteousnesse of Gods kingdome, nor thirst after the water of life.
1703. Oliver, in Phil. Trans., XXIII. 1408. A Prussian Boor; who being Crop-sick … thrust the Haft of his Knife down his Throat.
1748. Richardson, Clarissa (1811), VI. 350. A man in ill health, and crop-sick.
1845. Blackw. Mag., LVIII. 369. In his appeal from Philip drunk to Philip sober, Philip cannot, crop-sick, but nauseate the thought.
1878. Cumbrld. Gloss., Crop-sick, disordered in the stomach.
Hence Crop-sickness.
1654. R. Whitlock, Ζωοτομια, 126. One that scarce knew any but Crop-sicknesse.
1788. V. Knox, Winter Even., I. III. ii. 241. As soon as they were recovered of their own crop-sickness.
