Peaked

Thin and angular. The opposite of FLESHY. The verb occurs in Macbeth, I. 3:—

1835–40.  I am dreadfully sorry, says I, to see you, Banks, lookin’ so peecked: why you look like a sick turkey hen, all legs.—Haliburton, ‘The Clockmaker,’ 38 (N.E.D.)

1859.  There a’n’t much of him, anyhow; but ’t seems to me he looks peakeder than ever.—Holmes, ‘The Professor at the Breakfast-Table,’ ch. 9.

1860.  I lived on bread-and-milk nearly six weeks, until my face grew as peaked as a crow’s beak.—Yale Lit. Mag., xxv. 169 (Feb.).

a. 1871.  His mother, the old Widdah Elderkin, she was jest about the poorest, peakedest old body over to Sherburne, and went out to days’ work.—Mrs. Stowe, ‘Mis’ Elderkin’s Pitcher.’

a. 1872.  An elderly man with peaked features, large watery eyes, and an attire of dilapidated respectability.—J. M. Bailey, ‘Folks in Danbury,’ p. 14.

1878.  When I came here she was as peaked as a young rat.—Rose T. Cooke, ‘Happy Dodd,’ chap. xxxvi.