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Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: Library in Itself

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Peer

Peer (peer)
v. i.(?)
Peer
[imp. *** p. p. Peered (?)] p. pr. *** vb. n. Peering.] [OF. parir, pareir equiv. to F. paraî]tre to appear, L. parere. Cf. Appear.]
  1. To come in sight; to appear.
    [Poetic]

    So honor peereth in the meanest habit. Shak.

    See how his gorget peers above his gown! B. Jonson.

  2. To look narrowly or curiously or intently; to peep; as, the peering day.
    Milton.

    Peering in maps for ports, and piers, and roads. Shak.

    As if through a dungeon grate he peered. Coleridge.


Peer

Peer (peer)
n.
Peer
  1. One of the same rank, quality, endowments, character, etc.; an equal; a match; a mate.

    In song he never had his peer. Dryden.

    Shall they consort only with their peers? I. Taylor.

  2. A comrade; a companion; a fellow; an associate.

    He all his peers in beauty did surpass. Spenser.

  3. A nobleman; a member of one of the five degrees of the British nobility, namely, duke, marquis, earl, viscount, baron; as, a peer of the realm.

    A noble peer of mickle trust and power. Milton.

    House of Peers, The Peers, the British House of Lords. See Parliament. -- Spiritual peers, the bishops and archibishops, or lords spiritual, who sit in the House of Lords.


Peer

Peer (peer)
v. t.
Peer
  1. To make equal in rank.
    [R.] Heylin.

Peer

Peer (peer)
v. t.
Peer
  1. To be, or to assume to be, equal.
    [R.]













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