sicker
To percolate, trickle, or seep; to ooze, as water through a crack.
figuratively, intransitive
Or sickered from the skeleton of earth.
No drop of water fell from the hot blue
Where it comes from
Inherited from Middle English *sikeren (attested only as sikeriez (“(it) trickles, (it) leaks, (it) oozes”)), from Old English sicerian (“to ooze, seep”), from Proto-West Germanic *sikarōn, from Proto-Germanic *sikarōną (“to trickle”), from Proto-Germanic *sīką (“slow running water”). Cognate with German Low German sickern (“to seep”), German sickern (“to seep, trickle”). Akin also to English sitch.
Adapted from the Wiktionary entry sicker (CC BY-SA 4.0).