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See 1st Pea.

See Piece.

The dauw.

To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep. [Colloq.]

A child's game; bopeep.

To plunder; to pillage; to rob. [Obs.] But govern ill the nations under yoke, Peeling their provinces. Milton.

A graceful and swift South African antelope (Pelea capreola). The hair is woolly, and ash-gray on the back and sides. The horns are black, long, slender, straight, nearly smooth, and very sharp. Called also rheeboc, and rehboc.

One who peels or strips.

See 1st Peel. Sir W. Scott.

To draw, bend, or straighten, as metal, by blows with the peen of a hammer or sledge.

To complain. [Scot.]

hatched; to chirp; to cheep. There was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped. Is. x. 14.

An adjustable piece, pierced with a small hole to peep through in aiming, attached to a rifle or other firearm near the breech; -- distinguished from an open sight.

One who peeps; a prying person; a spy. Who's there peepers, . . . eavesdroppers J. Webster.

A hole, or crevice, through which one may peep without being discovered.

See Peephole.

A sacred tree (Ficus religiosa) of the Buddhists, a kind of fig tree which attains great size and venerable age. See Bo tree. [Written also pippul tree, and pipal tree.]

To come in sight; to appear. [Poetic] So honor peereth in the meanest habit. Shak. See how his gorget peers above his gown! B. Jonson.

The rank or dignity of a peer. Blackstone.

Peerage; also, a lordship. [Obs.]