Sickly looking.--Todd. Applied to a person who is sickly, and whose face presents sharp angles. Holloway says, that in England they say of a sickly person, "he looks pale and peaked.' The same expression is often heard in the Northern States.
But there was a lawyer, a standing up by the grove, lookin' as peaked and as forlorn as an unmated coon.--Sam Slick in England, ch. 11.