To look sideways or obliquely; now especially with sexual desire or malicious intent.
And she looked to Mr. –––– / And leered like a love-sick pigeon.
To entice with a leer or leers.
A significant side glance; a glance expressive of some passion, as malignity, amorousness, etc.; a sly or lecherous look.
Nevertheless humanity stood before him no longer in the pensive sweetness of Italian art, but in the staring and ghastly attitudes of a Wiertz Museum, and with the leer of a study by Van Beers.
A town and rural district of Lower Saxony, Germany.
A small hamlet in Long Rapids Township, Alpena County, Michigan.
A town, the county seat of Leer County, Unity State, South Sudan.
From Middle English ler, leor (“face, cheek”), from Old English hlēor (“face, cheek, profile”), from Proto-West Germanic *hleuʀ, from Proto-Germanic *hleuzą (“ear, cheek”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱ...
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But Bertran has been taught the Arts of Court, / To guild a Face with Smiles; and leer a man to ruin.
To teach.
The cheek.
No ladie (quoth the earle with a lowd voice, and the tears trilling downe his leeres)
Alternative form of lehr.
Faint from lack of food; hungry.