Of an unhealthy, unwholesome colour; livid, leaden-hued. Applied esp. to wounds, to the human face discoloured by disease, and to corpses. Obsolete.

Of a person's eyes, cheeks, etc.: having the appearance of having sunk into the face; unusually hollow or deeply set, esp. because of tiredness…

Of persons: Sickly or feeble in appearance. Also in combinations wersh-like, wersh-looking.

Of persons and animals, their limbs, etc.: Sickly, feeble, delicate; lean, wizened, shrivelled. Also, of a countenance: Sickly-looking. Cf. wersh…

? Unwholesome-looking.

Of a person's eyes, cheeks, etc.: having the appearance of having sunk into the face; unusually hollow or deeply set, esp. because of tiredness…

With the chap or lower jaw hanging down, as an effect of extreme exhaustion or debility, of a wound received, or esp. of death.

With the lower jaw fallen, hanging down, or shrunk; figurative, dejected, dispirited, miserable, crestfallen; = chap-fallen, adj.

Having a pinched and miserable appearance. Of complexion: having a dull unhealthy look.

transferred and of things personified.

Somewhat sallow in hue.

Sharp-featured, thin, pinched, as from illness or undernourishment; sickly looking. Cf. peaky, adj.2

Of persons: Pale and sickly-looking; weak, feeble, puny.

‘pinched’, wasted, shrivelled.

Pale; sickly; thin; feeble.

Somewhat sickly; pinched, unhealthy. Also figurative. Cf. peaky, adj.2