Category:Peer

Peer, v. i. [imp. & p.p peered; p. pr. & vb. n. Peering.] Etym: [of. Parir, pareir equiv. to f. paraître 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. Etym: [perh. a different word; cf. Oe. piren, lg. piren. Cf. Pry To peep.]

Defn: 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, n. Etym: [oe. per, of. per, f. pair, fr. L. par equal. Cf. Apparel, pair, par, n., Umpire.]

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 v. t.

Defn: to make equal in rank. [r.] Heylin.

Peer Peer v. t.

Defn: to be, or to assume to be, equal. [r.]