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noun
Leer  n.  An oven in which glassware is annealed.


Leer  n.  
1.
The cheek. (Obs.)
2.
Complexion; aspect; appearance. (Obs.) "A Rosalind of a better leer than you."
3.
A distorted expression of the face, or an indirect glance of the eye, conveying a sinister or immodest suggestion. "With jealous leer malign Eyed them askance." "She gives the leer of invitation." "Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer."


verb
Leer  v. t.  To learn. (Obs.) See Lere, to learn.


Leer  v. t.  To entice with a leer, or leers; as, to leer a man to ruin.


Leer  v. i.  (past & past part. leered; pres. part. leering)  To look with a leer; to look askance with a suggestive expression, as of hatred, contempt, lust, etc.; to cast a sidelong lustful or malign look. "I will leerupon him as a' comes by." "The priest, above his book, Leering at his neighbor's wife."


adjective
Leer  adj.  (Obs. or Prov. Eng.) Empty; destitute; wanting; as:
(a)
Empty of contents. "A leer stomach."
(b)
Destitute of a rider; and hence, led, not ridden; as, a leer horse.
(c)
Wanting sense or seriousness; trifling; trivolous; as, leer words.





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"Leer" Quotes from Famous Books



... on me, and was resolved to invest my little fortune in such a way that I might have a modest competence, so that the dreadful spectre of poverty might never leer ...
— Jacqueline of Golden River • H. M. Egbert
... a leer, seemed to imply that Alix was in the secret, a party to Cherry's foolishness, and did imply very distinctly that Martin felt himself to be more than a match for all their cunning. The woman was silent, looking straight ...
— Sisters • Kathleen Norris
... now, I ain't got no time to fool!" prompted the man, with a leer. "I'm dead onto your lay, and there's a bull comin' along ...
— The Miracle Man • Frank L. Packard
... man is meat. To glory some advance a lying claim, Thieves of renown, and pilferers of fame: Their front supplies what their ambition lacks; They know a thousand lords, behind their backs. Cottil is apt to wink upon a peer, When turn'd away, with a familiar leer; And Harvey's eyes, unmercifully keen, Have murder'd fops, by whom she ne'er was seen. Niger adopts stray libels; wisely prone To covet shame still greater than his own. Bathyllus, in the winter of threescore, Belies his innocence, ...
— The Poetical Works of Edward Young, Volume 2 • Edward Young
... on the other side of the Geule. The south side was similarly defended by a wall with four strong bastions, while beyond these at the southwest corner lay a field called the Polder, extending to the point where the Yper Leer ran ...
— By England's Aid or The Freeing of the Netherlands (1585-1604) • G.A. Henty


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