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peaked, a.|piːkt, ˈpiːkɪd|
Forms: 5 pekyd, peked, 6–8 peeked, 7– peaked.
[f. peak n.2 + -ed2. Cf. picked, piked. In sense 2, app. connected with peak v.1 4.]
1. a. Having a peak; pointed, acuminated; cut, trimmed, or brought to a peak or point; cf. peak n.2 5 e and picked ppl. a., piked.
c1450Cov. Myst. xxv. (Shaks. Soc.) 241 Off ffyne cordewan a goodly peyre of long pekyd schon. c1467Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 251 With youre longe peked schone, Therfor your thrifte is almost don. 1578Lyte Dodoens iii. vi. 320 The clapper or pestill..is long and thicke, and sharpe poynted peeked lyke to a horne. 1617Moryson Itin. iii. 177 The Gentlewomen..weare vpon their heads a black vaile of Cipers, peaked at the forehead, with a veluet hood hanging downe behind. 1640Somner Antiq. Canterb. 171 The ocular and peeked or pointed form of the arch. 1742Fielding J. Andrews i. xiv, Her chin was peaked. 1749W. Ellis Sheph. Guide 193 (E.D.S.) [Adder's tongue has] a peeked leaf or stalk. 1787F. Burney Diary June, Enumerating various changes in the modes, from square shoes to peaked. 1825Macaulay Milton Ess. (1887) 19 [Charles the first] his Vandyke dress,..and his peaked beard. 1952[see kurtosis]. 1965Wireless World July 329/1 The frequency of the peaked response is accordingly altered by switching each arm capacitance of the parallel-T network. 1968A. J. Merrett Executive Remuneration in U.K. p. xiii, The indivisible nature of many executive roles..necessitates great personal involvement,..and the strain of an erratic and highly peaked work load.
b. spec. Of a mountain, hill, etc.: Having, or rising into, a peak. Also in comb., as two-peaked, twin-peaked, etc. So of a roof.
1670Narborough Jrnl. in Acc. Sev. late Voy. i. (1694) 39, I went..to the peeked Rock. 1797Mrs. Radcliffe Italian xiii, Its peaked head towered far above every neighbouring summit. 1856Ruskin Mod. Paint. IV. v. xiv. §10 It is curious how rarely..an instance can be found of a mountain ascertainably peaked in the true sense of the word—pointed at the top, and sloping steeply on all sides. 1868M. E. Braddon Dead Sea Fr. I. ii. 18 The quaint peaked roofs and grand old churches. 1872Jenkinson Guide Eng. Lakes (1879) 325 The bulky mass of Helvellyn and the peaked summit of Catchedecam.
2. Sharp-featured, thin, pinched, as from illness or want; sickly-looking, ‘peaky’. Chiefly colloq.
1835–40Haliburton Clockm. (1862) 38, I am dreadfully sorry, says I, to see you..lookin so peecked. 1856Mrs. Browning Aur. Leigh ii. 929 The dumb derision of that gray peaked face. 1860O. W. Holmes Prof. Breakf.-t. ix, He looks peakeder than ever. 1883J. Hawthorne Dust xxxvi. 295 As pale and peaked as a charity-school-girl. 1892Sporting Life 26 Mar. 7/5 He still loses weight, and the peaked look in his face is ominous.
3. Comb., as peaked-faced, peaked-nosed, peaked-looking, peaked-roofed adjs.
1842Miall in Nonconf. II. 865 Going about the world, like a very peaked-nosed woman. 1889C. King Queen of Bedlam xiv. 188 Randall M'Lean, very white and ‘peaked’ looking, was sitting propped up in bed. 1891‘L. Malet’ Wages of Sin I. i. iii. 56 It'ud aggravate a saint, that it would, to hear you so taken up with a little peaked-faced bit of a maid. 1894Outing (U.S.) XXIV. 197/2 A peaked-roofed construction.
Hence ˈpeakedness, (a) the quality or condition of being peaked or pointed; (b) (in sense 2 above).
1832J. P. Kennedy Swallow B. iii. (1860) 43 The peculiar peakedness of her nose. 1856Ruskin Mod. Paint. IV. v. xiv. §11 No mountain in the Alps produces a more vigorous impression of peakedness than the Matterhorn. 1884J. C. Harris in Century Mag. Nov. 121 Her general aspect of peakedness. |