To look narrowly or curiously or intently; to peep, To look with difficulty, or as if searching for something, Poetic To come in sight; to appear, transitive verb_ rare To be, or to assume to be, equal, verb_ look searchingly, noun_ a person who is of equal standing with another in a group, the bishops and archibishops, or lords spiritual, who sit in the House of Lords, A comrade; a companion; a fellow; an associate