Thesaurus: peer

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1. v. i. To come in sight; to appear.
2. v. i. To look narrowly or curiously or intently; to peep; as, the peering day.
3. n. One of the same rank, quality, endowments, character, etc.; an equal; a match; a mate.
4. n. A comrade; a companion; a fellow; an associate.
5. n. 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.
6. v. t. To make equal in rank.
7. v. t. To be, or to assume to be, equal.
8. n. a person who is of equal standing with another in a group
9. n. a nobleman or noblewoman who is a member of the British peerage
10. v. look searchingly
11. 1. To word/come">come in word/sight">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.] 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. 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. To make equal in rank. [R.] Heylin. To be, or to assume to be, equal. [R.]
12. To look narrowly or curiously or intently; to peep; as, thepeering day. Milton.Peering in maps for ports, and piers, and roads. Shak.As if through a dungeon grate he peered. Coleridge.