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