Hypertext Webster Gateway: "peeper"

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

Sandpiper \Sand"pi`per\, n.
1. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of numerous species of small limicoline
game birds belonging to {Tringa}, {Actodromas},
{Ereunetes}, and various allied genera of the family
{Tringid[ae]}.

Note: The most important North American species are the
pectoral sandpiper ({Tringa maculata}), called also
{brownback}, {grass snipe}, and {jacksnipe}; the
red-backed, or black-breasted, sandpiper, or dunlin
({T. alpina}); the purple sandpiper ({T. maritima}: the
red-breasted sandpiper, or knot ({T. canutus}); the
semipalmated sandpiper ({Ereunetes pusillus}); the
spotted sandpiper, or teeter-tail ({Actitis
macularia}); the buff-breasted sandpiper ({Tryngites
subruficollis}), and the Bartramian sandpiper, or
upland plover. See under {Upland}. Among the European
species are the dunlin, the knot, the ruff, the
sanderling, and the common sandpiper ({Actitis, or
Tringoides, hypoleucus}), called also {fiddler},
{peeper}, {pleeps}, {weet-weet}, and {summer snipe}.
Some of the small plovers and tattlers are also called
sandpipers.

2. (Zo["o]l.) A small lamprey eel; the pride.

{Curlew sandpiper}. See under {Curlew}.

{Stilt sandpiper}. See under {Stilt}.

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

Peeper \Peep"er\, n.
1. A chicken just breaking the shell; a young bird.

2. One who peeps; a prying person; a spy.

Who's there? peepers, . . . eavesdroppers? --J.
Webster.

3. The eye; as, to close the peepers. [Colloq.]

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

peeper
n 1: a viewer who enjoys seeing the sex acts or sex organs of
others [syn: {voyeur}, {Peeping Tom}]
2: the organ of sight (`peeper' is an informal term for `eye')
[syn: {eye}, {oculus}, {optic}]


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