ill adj. (used in various applications of ‘bad’, ‘evil’; cf. EVIL)
1.
morally
evil, wicked Tp. I. ii.
454, 455, Wiv. V. v. 137,
Meas. II. i. 68
“a very ill
house,”
2H4 I. ii. 188
“his ill angel,”
H8 IV. ii. 43, Mac. I. iii. 131, Lucr. 579.
2.
unskilled
Rom. IV. ii. 6
“'tis an ill cook that
cannot lick his own fingers,”
Ham. II. ii. 119
“I am ill at these
numbers.”
