peer

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Every lord, passing through a royal park, had the right to kill a deer: in the house of the king the peer was at home; in the Tower of London the scale of allowance for the king was no more than that for a peer--namely, twelve pounds sterling per week.

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  1. intransitive verb To look intently, searchingly, or with difficulty. See Synonyms at gaze.
  2. intransitive verb To be partially visible; show: The moon peered from behind dark clouds.
  3. noun A person who has equal standing with another or others, as in rank, class, or age: children who are easily influenced by their peers.
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  • The engineers now welcomed her—if not as a peer, then as a talented apprentice. —  ChallengingDestiny#25
  • Economic and political risk is comparable to the Latin American peer group.
  • The Conficker worm started to update itself on Wednesday via peer-to-peer, and dropped a payload on infected computers, according to Trend Micro. —  silicon.com :
  • "I think that peer-to-peer, they have a lot of influence." —  Breaking News: CBS News
  • She sees Franco as a peer, which is how he wanted to be viewed during his stint at UCLA. —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
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nobleman ·  baron ·  colleague ·  senator ·  lord ·  statesman ·  clergyman ·  minister ·  magistrate ·  nobility ·  knight ·  courtier

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peer:   peers ·  peered ·  peering
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  1. Middle English piren (probably from Frisian piren) and peren (short for aperen, to appear; see appear).
  2. Middle English, from Old French per, equal, peer, from Latin pār; see perə-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from ME.piren, puren, from Low German piren, look closely, a later form (with loss of l after p, as in English pat, patch, etc.) of pliren, peer, look narrowly, = Swedish plira = Danish plire, blink: see blear. With peer in this sense, from Middle English piren, is confused peer, *pear, from Middle English peren, from Old French perer (?), parer, pareir, from Latin parere, appear (Middle English also partly by apheresis from aperen, English appear): see appear. Hence also, by variation, pry.
  2. Early modern English also peare; from Middle English peer, pere, per, from Old French per, peer, later pair, French pair, a peer; as adjective, equal; from Latin par, equal: see pair, par.
  3. from Middle English peeren; from peer, n.
 

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