peerest

Verb (1)

peer (third-person singular simple present peers, present participle peering, simple past and past participle peered)

1. (intransitive) To 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;c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To come in sight; to appear.
   • And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, / So honour peereth in the meanest habit.c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

Verb (2)

peer (third-person singular simple present peers, present participle peering, simple past and past participle peered)

1. To make equal in rank.
   • Being now Peered with the Lord Chancellor, and the Earl of Essex.1670, Peter Heylyn, Aerius Redivivus
2. (Internet) To carry communications traffic terminating on one's own network on an equivalency basis to and from another network, usually without charge or payment. Contrast with transit where one pays another network provider to carry one's traffic.

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