LekhoriLekhoriTo look with difficulty, or as if searching for something.
[…] I should be still / Plucking the grass, to know where sits the wind, / Peering in maps for ports, and piers, and roads;
To come in sight; to appear.
And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, / So honour peereth in the meanest habit.
To make equal in rank.
Being now Peered with the Lord Chancellor, and the Earl of Essex.
A look; a glance.
Blessed are those organisers who provide one-and-all with a name tag, for then the participants will chat together. A quick peer at your neighbour's lapel is much the simplest way to become introduced […]
From Middle English peren, pyren, piren (“to peer, gaze”), perhaps from Old English *pȳran (“to look, peer”), from Proto-West Germanic *pūrijan (“to look”), related to Saterland Frisian pierje (“to lo...
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Somebody who is, or something that is, at a level or of a value equal (to that of something else).
In song he never had his peer.
Someone who pees, someone who urinates.
As was the caveat about peeing in a pool. Of course, peeing in a pool wasn't dangerous to the person ... If you peed in a pool, and you were carrying the polio virus, presumably *other* people were put at risk, not the peer (pee-er?).