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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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"Peer" Quotes from Famous Books

... Billee crept. Dick could see him picking his way like a dancer, so that he might step on no branch or twig which would break and give him away. Now he was almost at the side of the house. Dick saw him lean forward and cautiously peer ...

— The Boy Ranchers on Roaring River - or Diamond X and the Chinese Smugglers • Willard F. Baker

... themselves, on the ninth of July, seventy-seven years ago, they made their own declaration of independence, commemorated in the name of that thing of beauty and of power which today floats upon the bosom of the Hudson, a peer among the embattled navies of the world. They made good that declaration against all odds, through hardship, through suffering, through seas of blood, with desperate valor and lofty heroism, worthy the plaudits ...

— Latin America and the United States - Addresses by Elihu Root • Elihu Root

... up to my middle in thin wet mud. In this I had to trudge seven miles before I could get other garments from the coolie, changing my trousers behind a piece of matting held up in front of me by my boy! All enjoyed the fun—except myself. Little boys tried to peer around the side of the matting, and, as T'ong tried to kick them away, the matting would drop and expose me to public view. But I had to change, and that was most important ...

— Across China on Foot • Edwin Dingle

... she would have been his own. Each time he had beheld her since that night he had felt this burn more deeply in his soul. He was too high and fine in all his thoughts to say to himself that in her he saw for the first time the woman who was his peer; but this was very truth—or might have been, if Fate had set her youth elsewhere, and a lady who was noble and her own mother had trained and guarded her. When he saw her at the Court surrounded, as she ever ...

— A Lady of Quality • Frances Hodgson Burnett

... the ominous sound and closed his Teller's window with a gentle bang. Patrick took notice and swung to the iron grating of the outer door. You might peer in and beg ever so hard—unless, of course, you were a visitor like myself, and even then Peter would have to give his consent—you might peer through, I say, or tap on the glass, or you might plead that you ...

— Peter - A Novel of Which He is Not the Hero • F. Hopkinson Smith

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