Leer

Part of speech: noun (n.)

An oven in which glassware is annealed.

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. The cheek. [Obs.] Holinshed.

2. complexion; aspect; appearance. [Obs.] A Rosalind of a better leer than you. Shak.

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. Milton. She gives the leer of invitation. Shak. Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer. Pope.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To learn. [Obs.] See Lere, to learn.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

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 leer him as a'comes by. Shak. The priest, above his book, Leering at his neighbor's wife. Tennyson.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To entice with a leer, or leers; as, to leer a man to ruin. Dryden.

Part of speech: adjective (a.)

1. Empty; destitute; wanting; as:

2. Empty of contents. "A leer stomach." Gifford.

3. Destitute of a rider; and hence, led, not ridden; as, a leer horse. B. Jonson.

4. Wanting sense or seriousness; trifling; trivolous; as, leer words.