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Peer   /pɪr/   Listen
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



... was bestowed upon him, and all the world applauded the honour conferred on Art in his name. On January 13th, 1896, the news of his death came as a terrible surprise. The new peer, Baron Leighton of Stretton, was buried with much state at St. Paul's Cathedral, before men in general had wholly recognized that Lord Leighton was the popular "Sir Frederic," the President of the Royal Academy, and one of the most familiar ...
— Frederic Lord Leighton - An Illustrated Record of His Life and Work • Ernest Rhys
... political chess and absorb superficial culture at the same time. Books, plays, authors, artists, manners, accent—all were grist to his mill. He was an astute actor. He could assume a virtue; simulate anxiety; hover about closed doors on tiptoe; speak in the awed whisper; in the event of a crisis peer ...
— The Masques of Ottawa • Domino
... The first telescopes colored everything looked at, but by a hundred years of mathematical research, the proper curvature of objectives formed of two glasses was discovered, so that now we have perfect instruments. Great results followed; one can now peer into the profound solitudes of space, bringing to view millions of stars, requiring light 5,000 years to traverse their awful distance, and behold suns wheeling around suns, and thousands of nebulae, ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 288 - July 9, 1881 • Various
... with me? The year Declined; in the still air the thrush piped clear, The languid sunshine did incurious peer Among the thinned leaves ...
— Poems of Paul Verlaine • Paul Verlaine
... directly to the indictment. No evidence had been heard against him. His trial had been a conversation between himself and the Court. The point had been raised by his friends. His wife had been in London to make interest for him, and a peer had presented a petition in Bunyan's behalf in the House of Lords. The judges had been directed to look again into the matter at the midsummer assizes. The high sheriff was active in Bunyan's favour. The Judges Twisden, ...
— Bunyan • James Anthony Froude


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