Printing and letters had just peeped abroad in the world and the restorers of learning wrote very eagerly against one another. When flowers first peep’d, and trees did blossoms bear,Īnd winter had not yet deform’d th’ inverted year. She makes th’ obedient ghosts peep trembling through the ground.Įarth, but not at once, her visage rears,Īnd peeps upon the seas from upper grounds. ![]() With words not hers, and more than human sound, Peept forth from their first blushes so that nowĪ thousand ruddy hopes smil’d in each bud,Īnd flatter’d every greedy eye that stood. The tim’rous maiden-blossoms on each bough Peeps forth and soon renews her native pride.Īnd the true blood, which peeps forth fairly through it,ĭo plainly give you out an unstain’d shepherd.Įngland and France might through their amity,īreed him some prejudice for from this league, Would not one think, the almanackmaker was crept out of his grave to take t’ other peep at the stars.Įtymology: This word has no etymology, except that of Stephen Skinner, who derives it from ophessen, Dutch, to lift up and of Meric Casaubon, who derives it from ὀπιπευτὴϱ, a spy perhaps it may come from pip, pipio, Latin, to cry as young birds: when the chickens first broke the shell and cried, they were said to begin to pip or peep and the word that expressed the act of crying, was by mistake applied to the act of appearing that was at the same time: 1. First appearance: as, at the peep and first break of day. Samuel Johnson's Dictionary Rate this definition: 0.0 / 0 votes
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