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.