peer

Etymology 1

From Middle English piren (“to peer”), from or related to Saterland Frisian pierje (“to look”), Dutch Low Saxon piren (“to look”), West Flemish pieren (“to look with narrowed eyes, squint at”), Dutch pieren (“to look closely at, examine”), which could all be related to the root of English blear. Or, possibly from a shortening of appear.

verb

1. (intransitive) To look with difficulty, or as if searching for something.
   As if thro’ a dungeon grate he peer’d With broad and burning face. 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in Lyrical Ballads, London: J. & A. Arch, Part III, p. 17, And strait the Sun was fleck’d with bars (Heaven’s mother send us grace)
   He walked slowly past the gate and peered through a narrow gap in the cedar hedge. The girl was moving along a sanded walk, toward a gray, unpainted house, with a steep roof, broken by dormer windows. 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 10
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To come in sight; to appear.

noun

1. 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 […] 1970, William Crookes, T. A. Malone, George Shadbolt, The British journal of photography, volume 117, page 58

Etymology 2

From Middle English pere, per, from Anglo-Norman peir, Old French per, from Latin pār. Doublet of pair and par.

noun

1. Somebody who is, or something that is, at a level or of a value equal (to that of something else).
2. Someone who is approximately the same age (as someone else).
3. A noble with a title, i.e., a peerage, and in times past, with certain rights and privileges not enjoyed by commoners.
   a peer of the realm
4. A comrade; a companion; an associate.

verb

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.

Etymology 3

table pee + -er

noun

1. (informal) 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?). August 22 1999, “Re: Swimming after eating”, in alt.folklore.urban (Usenet)
   SOunds like you've already broken him quite well, if he's peeing when disciplined. Pretty sad. He's not a dog, not that treating a dog like this is any better either. You've turned your child into a submissive peer. August 29 2000, “Re: 32 month old urinating in his room! HELP!”, in alt.parenting.solutions (Usenet)
   Submissive peeing, on the other hand, IS related to anxiety. But submissive peeing is not marking. A submissive peer is generally a very submissive dog. October 11 2003, “Re: do female's "mark" their territory?”, in rec.pets.dogs.behavior (Usenet)