Verb

(star)

To look fixedly (at something).

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*:A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire. In fact, that arm-chair had been an extravagance of Mrs. Bunting. She had wanted her husband to be comfortable after the day's work was done, and she had paid thirty-seven shillings for the chair.

To be very conspicuous on account of size, prominence, colour, or brilliancy.

:staring windows or colours

(obsolete) To stand out; to project; to bristle.

*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

*:Makest my blood cold, and my hair to stare .

* John Mortimer (1656?-1736)

*:Take off all the staring straws and jags in the hive.

Verb

(en verb)

To look with difficulty, or as if searching for something.

* Shakespeare

peering in maps for ports, and piers, and roads

* Coleridge

as if through a dungeon grate he peered

* 1900 , , The House Behind the Cedars , Chapter I,

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.

* 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 6

He would peek into the curtained windows, or, climbing upon the roof, peer down the black depths of the chimney in vain endeavor to solve the unknown wonders that lay within those strong walls.

to come in sight; to appear.

* Shakespeare

So honour peereth in the meanest habit.

* Ben Jonson

See how his gorget peers above his gown!

Verb

(en verb)

to make equal in rank.

(Heylin)

(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.