Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Peer"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

So honor peereth in the meanest habit. --Shak.

See how his gorget peers above his gown! --B.
Jonson.

2. [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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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