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noun

Peer n.

1.

One of the same rank, quality, endowments, character, etc.; an equal; a match; a mate. "In song he never had his peer." "Shall they consort only with their peers?"

2.

A comrade; a companion; a fellow; an associate. "He all his peers in beauty did surpass."

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."

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.

verb

Peer v. t. To make equal in rank. (R.)

Peer v. t. To be, or to assume to be, equal. (R.)

Peer v. i. (past & past part. peered; pres. part. peering)

1.

To come in sight; to appear. (Poetic) "So honor peereth in the meanest habit." "See how his gorget peers above his gown!"

2.

To look narrowly or curiously or intently; to peep; as, the peering day. "Peering in maps for ports, and piers, and roads." "As if through a dungeon grate he peered."

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Etymology of 'Peer'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Peer" Quotes from Famous Books

... it; but left to compete for the honors simply on scenic grace and beauty—the grand, the august and the sublime being barred the contest—it could challenge the old world and the new to produce its peer. ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... the right boot you will observe that it sunk in deeper, meaning, probably, that he threw his weight on the right foot and took a step forward with the left, only the toe of which was on the ground as he leaned forward to peer ...

— Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders Among the Kentucky Mountaineers • Jessie Graham Flower

... ghost be pleased to hear His fame augmented by an English peer, How he embellishes his Helen's loves, Outdoes his softness, ...

— Early Theories of Translation • Flora Ross Amos

... Osbernus filius Arfast (Lobineau, tom. ii. p. 97.). One of those may probably have become Abbot of S. Evroult. No doubt MR. SANSOM is well aware that one of the same family was Osborn, Bishop of Exeter. He was a son of Osborn de Crespon, and brother of the Earl of Hereford, premier peer of England. In 1066 he forbad the monks to be buried in the cloisters of their monasteries; but they resisted his injunction, and, on an appeal to the Pope, obtained a decision against him (Mabillon). For an eulogium on him see Godwin, De presul. Angl. ...

— Notes and Queries, Number 218, December 31, 1853 • Various

... portrait of Gladstone more than any other face I had seen. He had large reddish-brown eyes, deep set under heavy eyebrows, and with something of the blackfellow in them—the sort of eyes that will peer at something on the horizon that no one else can see. He had a way of talking to the horizon, too—more than to his companion; and he had a deep vertical wrinkle in his forehead ...

— On the Track • Henry Lawson

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