He all his peers in beauty did surpass.
Spenser.
3. A nobleman; a member of one of the five degrees of the British
nobility, namely, duke, marquis, earl, viscount, baron; as, a peer of
the realm.
A noble peer of mickle trust and power.
Milton.
House of Peers, The Peers, the British House of Lords. See Parliament.
-- Spiritual peers, the bishops and archibishops, or lords spiritual,
who sit in the House of Lords.
Peer v. t. To make equal in rank. [R.] Heylin.