[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

peer \peer\ v. t.
   to make equal in rank. r. --heylin.
   1913 webster

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

peer \peer\ v. t.
   to be, or to assume to be, equal. r.
   1913 webster

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

peer \peer\, n. oe. per, of. per, f. pair, fr. l. par equal.
   cf. apparel, pair, par, n., umpire.
   1. one of the same rank, quality, endowments, character,
      etc.; an equal; a match; a mate.
      1913 webster

            in song he never had his peer.        --dryden.
      1913 webster

            shall they consort only with their peers? --i.
                                                  taylor.
      1913 webster

   2. a comrade; a companion; a fellow; an associate.
      1913 webster

            he all his peers in beauty did surpass. --spenser.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster

            a noble peer of mickle trust and power. --milton.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster
see also:
apparel pair par umpire house of peers the peers 
parliament spiritual peers 

[4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

peer \peer\ p=er, v. i. imp.  p. p. peered; p. pr.  vb.
   n. peering. of. parir, pareir equiv. to f. para^itre to
   appear, l. parere. cf. appear.
   1. to come in sight; to appear. poetic
      1913 webster

            so honor peereth in the meanest habit. --shak.
      1913 webster

            see how his gorget peers above his gown --b.
                                                  jonson.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster

            peering in maps for ports, and piers, and roads.
                                                  --shak.
      1913 webster

            as if through a dungeon grate he peered.
                                                  --coleridge.
      1913 webster
see also:
peered peering appear pry 

[5] : WordNet (r) 2.0

peer
     n 1: a person who is of equal standing with another in a group
          syn: equal, match, compeer
     2: a nobleman duke or marquis or earl or viscount or baron
        who is a member of the british peerage
     v : look searchingly; "we peered into the back of the shop to
         see whether a salesman was around"
see also:
equal match compeer 

[6] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

154 moby thesaurus words for "peer":
   brahman, appear, archduke, aristocrat, armiger, associate, autopsy,
   baron, baroness, baronet, be curious, become visible,
   bend the eyes, blue blood, bore, break through,
   burn with curiosity, canvass, check, check out, check over,
   check up on, coequal, colleague, compeer, confrere, count,
   counterpart, countess, daimio, delve into, dig around for,
   dig into, dig up, direct the eyes, ditto, duchess, duke, earl,
   emerge, equal, equipollent, equivalent, esquire, examine, explore,
   eye, fathom, fellow, gape, gaup, gawk, gentleman,
   give an examination, glare, gloat, go into, go over, goggle,
   grand duke, grandee, hidalgo, indagate, inquire, inspect,
   interrogate, investigate, lace-curtain, lady, laird, landgrave,
   like, look, look at, look into, look over, lord, lordling, magnate,
   magnifico, marchioness, margrave, marquis, match, mate, monitor,
   noble, nobleman, noblewoman, nose around for, nose out, observe,
   opposite number, optimate, overhaul, overlook, palsgrave, parallel,
   pass over, pass under review, patrician, peek, peep, peep out,
   peer at, peer into, peruse, play peekaboo, plumb, poke into,
   pore over, postmortem, probe, pry, pry into, query, question, quiz,
   review, rival, rubber, rubberneck, run over, scan, scrutinize,
   search into, seek, seigneur, seignior, set an examination, show,
   sift, silk-stocking, size, size up, snoop, sound, sovereign, spy,
   squire, stare, study, survey, swell, take a peep, take stock of,
   take the measure, thoroughbred, twin, upper-cruster, viscount,
   viscountess, waldgrave, want to know

[7] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

peer
     
        a unit of communications hardware or software that is on the
        same protocol layer of a network as another.  a common way
        of viewing a communications link is as two protocol stacks,
        which are actually connected only at the very lowest
        physical layer, but can be regarded as being connected at
        each higher layer by virtue of the services provided by the
        lower layers.  peer-to-peer communication refers to these real
        or virtual connections between corresponding systems in each
        layer.
     
        to give a simple example, when two people talk to each other,
        the lowest layer is the physical layer which concerns the
        sound pressure waves travelling from mouth to ear so mouths
        and ears are peers the next layer might be the speech and
        hearing centres in the people's brains and the top layer their
        cerebellums or minds.  although, barring telepathy, nothing
        passes directly between the two minds, there is a peer-to-peer
        communication between them.
     
     
see also:
protocol layer protocol stack 

[8] : Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

peer. equal. a man's peers are his equals. a man is to be tried by his 
peers. 
     2. in england and some other countries, this is a title of nobility; 
as, peers of the realm. in the united states, this equality is not so much 
political as civil. a man who is not a citizen, is nevertheless to be tried 
by citizens. 

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