pedigree, n. 1. ancestry, ancestral line, lineage, descent, parentage, birth, derivation, extraction, filiation; family, dynasty, house, tribe; race, strain, stock, breed, bloodline, stem, branch, stirps; heredity, heritage, past, roots.
2. genealogy, family tree, family record, list of ancestors.
3. nobility, noble or high birth, aristocracy, blue blood; purebred, pure blood, pure ancestry.
4. derivation, origin, origination, source; history, background. pedigreed, adj. purebred, pure-blooded, full-blooded, thoroughbred; royal, aristocratic, high-born, noble, blue-blooded, patrician, genteel, peek, v. 1. peep, peer, squint at, sneak a look or peek; glance, look quickly or briefly, cast a brief look at, glimpse, catch a glimpse of, snatch a glimpse, look hurriedly, regard hastily; take a look at, Inf. give the once-over, Inf. have a looksee; observe, witness, view, behold, contemplate, see.
-n. 2. peep, glimpse, brief look, look, glance, fur tive glance, Archaic, eyeshot, quick view, Scot. glisk, Fr. coup d'oeil, Scot. blink; Inf. once-over, Inf looksee, SI. gander. peel, v. 1. skin, pare, decorticate, excorticate, flay, scale, hull, bark; shell, husk, shuck; strip, denude, excoriate.
2. (of skin, bark, etc.) come off, detach, separate, split; exfoliate, Pathol, desquamate, shed, slough, molt, exuviate, flake.
3. Informal, undress, disrobe, take off one's clothes, doff, remove, cast off, strip, strip down, Euph. do a strip tease, SI. drop one's drawers, SI. drop trow.
4. keep one's eyes peeled Slang, watch closely, be on watch, be on the lookout, look out for; be on guard; be alert, SI. be on the ball.
-n. 5. skin, integument, rind, Bot. epicarp, hull, bark, shell, husk; pellicle, membrane, coating, coat, cover, covering. peep1, v. 1. peer, sneak a look at, glimpse, peek. See peek (def. 1).
2. begin to appear, show, become visible, become manifest; come forth, break through, see the light, emerge, rise, arise, issue, spring up, pop up. -n. 3. quick look, furtive glance, glimpse, peek. See peek (def. 2).
4. first appearance, manifestation, materializing; emergence, rise, rising, issuance, springing; beginning, dawning, breaking forth, unfolding; revelation, exposure.
5. aperture, opening, eye, Photog. viewfinder, peephole. See peephole. peep1, n. 1. cheep, chirp, chirrup, chip; tweet, twitter, tweedle; chitter, squeak.
-v. 2. cheep, chirp, chirrup, chip, pip; tweet, twitter, tweedle, trill, sing; chitter, chatter, squeak, peephole, n. aperture, opening, hole, eye, eyelet, eyehole, keyhole, peep; pinhole, puncture, perforation, interstice, pore, bore, airhole, spiracle; slit, crack, vent, slot; chink, cleft, cranny, rift, crevice, fissure, Archaic, scissure; mousehole; porthole. peer1, n. 1. equal, coequal, match, like, compeer; partner, confrere, colleague, associate; mate, fellow, pendant, companion; twin, double, counterpart, equivalent, equipollent, other half, alter ego; rival.