Word Meanings - PEER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
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. (more info) parir, pareir equiv. to F. paraître to appear,
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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. (more info) parir, pareir equiv. to F. paraître to appear, L. parere. Cf. 1. To come in sight; to appear. So honor peereth in the meanest habit. Shak. See how his gorget peers above his gown! B. Jonson.
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- FELLOW-COMMONER
A student at Cambridge University, England, who commons, or dines, at the Fellow's table. - EQUALIZER
One who, or that which, equalizes anything. - FELLOWSHIP
1. The state or relation of being or associate. 2. Companionship of persons on equal and friendly terms; frequent and familiar intercourse. In a great town, friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship which is in less neighborhods. - FELLOWSHIP; GOOD FELLOWSHIP
companionableness; the spirit and disposition befitting comrades. There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee. Shak. - EQUALIZE
1. To make equal; to cause to correspond, or be like, in amount or degree as compared; as, to equalize accounts, burdens, or taxes. One poor moment can suffice To equalize the lofty and the low. Wordsworth. No system of instruction will completely - INQUIRER
One who inquires or examines; questioner; investigator. Locke. Expert inquirers after truth. Cowper. - FELLOW-FEELING
1. Sympathy; a like feeling. 2. Joint interest. Arbuthnot. - FELLOWLIKE
Like a companion; companionable; on equal terms; sympathetic. Udall. - FELLOWLY
Fellowlike. Shak. - EQUALITY
Exact agreement between two expressions or magnitudes with respect to quantity; -- denoted by the symbol =; thus, a = x signifies that a contains the same number and kind of units of measure that x does. Confessional equality. See under - COMPATRIOT
One of the same country, and having like interests and feeling. The distrust with which they felt themselves to be regarded by their compatriots in America. Palfrey. - COMRADESHIP
The state of being a comrade; intimate fellowship. - COMRADE
A mate, companion, or associate. And turned my flying comrades to the charge. J. Baillie. I abjure all roofs, and choose . . . To be a comrade with the wolf and owl. Shak. (more info) chamber; hence, a chamber-fellowship, and then a chamber-fellow: - INQUIRENT
Making inquiry; inquiring; questioning. Shenstone. - COMPEER; COMPEIR
See CONPEAR - COMRADERY
The spirit of comradeship; comradeship. "Certainly", said Dunham, with the comradery of the smoker. W. D. Howells. - FELLOW
companionship, prop., a laying together of property; fe property + lag a laying, pl. lög law, akin to liggja to lie. See Fee, and Law, 1. A companion; a comrade; an associate; a partner; a sharer. The fellows of his crime. Milton. We are fellows - INQUIRE
inquirere, inquisitum; pref. in- in + quarere to seek. See Quest a 1. To ask a question; to seek for truth or information by putting queries. We will call the damsel, and inquire. Gen. xxiv. 57. Then David inquired of the Lord yet again. And the - EQUAL
Intended for voices of one kind only, either all male or all female; -- opposed to mixed. (more info) 1. Agreeing in quantity, size, quality, degree, value, etc.; having the same magnitude, the same value, the same degree, etc.; -- applied - FELLOW-CREATURE
One of the same race or kind; one made by the same Creator. Reason, by which we are raised above our fellow-creatures, the brutes. I. Watts. - UNEQUALABLE
Not capable of being equaled or paralleled. Boyle. - INEQUALITY
An expression consisting of two unequal quantities, with the sign of inequality between them; as, the inequality 2 < 3, or 4 > 1. (more info) 1. The quality of being unequal; difference, or want of equality, in any respect; lack of uniformity; - BEDFELLOW
One who lies with another in the same bed; a person who shares one's couch. - UNFELLOWED
Being without a fellow; unmatched; unmated. Shak. - DISFELLOWSHIP
To exclude from fellowship; to refuse intercourse with, as an associate. An attempt to disfellowship an evil, but to fellowship the evildoer. Freewill Bapt. Quart. - ODD FELLOW
A member of a secret order, or fraternity, styled the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, established for mutual aid and social enjoyment. - UNEQUALNESS
The quality or state of being unequal; inequality; unevenness. Jer. Taylor. - PEWFELLOW
1. One who occupies the same pew with another. 2. An intimate associate; a companion. Shak. - SUBEQUAL
Nearly equal. - GOOD-FELLOWSHIP
Agreeable companionship; companionableness. - PLAYFELLOW
A companion in amusements or sports; a playmate. Shak.