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leern.1

Forms: Old English hléor, hlíor, Middle English leor, Middle English ler, lire, Middle English–1500s lere, Middle English lure, lewre, Middle English–1500s lyre, Middle English lyr, leyre, Middle English–1500s lyer(e, 1500s–1600s leer(e.
Etymology: Old English hléor, hlíor neuter = Old Saxon hleor, hlear, hlier (Middle Dutch liere, Middle Low German ler), Old Norse hlýr (only plural). Some scholars have regarded the word as cognate with Greek πλευρόν side; but the z -umlaut in the Old Norse form indicates an Old Germanic type *hleuzom < pre-Germanic *kleusóm ; E. Zupitza suggests that this is the neuter of an adjective with the sense ‘adjacent to the ear’, < *kleusó- ear (root *kleu- to hear: see listen n.).
Obsolete.
1. The cheek.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > cheek > [noun]
wangc975
leerc1000
cheekOE
haffet1513
jowl1668
chap1709
gena1826
c1000 Sax. Leechd. I. 86 Gif hwylcum weargbræde weaxe on þam nosum oððe on þam hleore.
c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 157/8 Malae, hleor.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 15105 Urnen þa teres uppen þes kinges leores.
a1300 Floriz & Bl. 501 Þe tieres glide of hire lere.
c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 2918 The heu is swilk in hire ler, So the rose in roser.
13.. Metr. Hom. (Vernon MS.) in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen 57 273 As he eode wiþ leores weete.
c1330 Spec. Gy Warw. 842 Of þin eiȝen þe hote teres Þat goþ adoun bi þine leres.
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Tollem. MS) v. xiv ‘Mala’ is þe lower, and in þe face ben twey lewres þat schetteþ in ayþer side of þe nose.
c1410 Sir Cleges 153 Hys teris..That ran dovn be his lyre.
1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur ix. xxii. 371 This lytel brachet..lyched his learys and his erys.
1577 R. Stanyhurst Hist. Irelande iii. 114/2 in R. Holinshed Chron. I The teares trilling downe his leeres.
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 13 With tears his lyers ful he blubbred.
2. The face, countenance; hence, look or appearance (of the face and skin), ‘hue’, complexion. Often in alliterative phrases, as lovely or lovesome of leer, lily leer.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > [noun]
leera700
nebeOE
onseneeOE
wlitec950
anlethOE
nebshaftc1225
snouta1300
facec1300
visage1303
semblantc1315
vicea1325
cheera1350
countenance1393
front1398
fashiona1400
visurec1400
physiognomyc1425
groina1500
faxa1522
favour1525
facies1565
visor1575
complexiona1616
frontispiecea1625
mun1667
phiz1687
mug1708
mazard1725
physiog1791
dial plate1811
fizzog1811
jiba1825
dial1837
figurehead1840
Chevy Chase1859
mooey1859
snoot1861
chivvy1889
clock1899
map1899
mush1902
pan1920
kisser1938
boat1958
boat race1958
punim1965
a700 Epinal Gloss. 438 Frons, hleor.
OE Guthlac A 334 No he hine wið monna miltse gedælde, ac gesynta bæd sawla gehwylcre, þonne he to eorðan on þam anade hleor onhylde.
a1225 Leg. Kath. 316 Þi leor is, meiden, lufsum, & ti muð murie.
a1350 in G. L. Brook Harley Lyrics (1968) 49 Hire lure lumes liht ase a launterne anyht.
a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 227 Of lere ne of lykame lik him nas none.
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. x. 2 A wyf..That lene was of lere and of liche bothe.
c1400 Ywaine & Gaw. 2510 The mayden with lely lire.
a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xxxi. 429 Youre rud that was so red, Youre lyre the lylly lyke.
a1529 J. Skelton Tunnyng of Elynour Rummyng in Certayne Bks. (?1545) 12 Her lothely lere Is nothynge clere.
a1529 J. Skelton Phyllyp Sparowe (?1545) sig. C.viiiv The whytnesse of her lere.
1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus iv. ii. 118 Fie trecherous hue, that will betraie with blushing The close enacts and counsels of thy hart: Her's a young Lad framde of another leere, Looke how the blacke slaue smiles vpon the father. View more context for this quotation
1806 Jamieson Sir Oluf in Whitelaw Sc. Ballads (1875) 466/1 Whareto is your lire sae blae and wan?
3. ? Temper, disposition.The identity of the word in this example is very doubtful.
ΚΠ
a1575 Wyfe Lapped in Morrelles Skin 1109 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. IV. 226 Thus endeth the iest of Morels skin, Where the curst wife was lapped in; Because she was of a shrewde leere, Thus was she serued in this maner.
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leern.2

Brit. /lɪə/, U.S. /lɪ(ə)r/
Etymology: < leer v.
A side glance; a look or roll of the eye expressive of slyness, malignity, immodest desire, etc.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > a look or glance > [noun] > sideways
side-lookinga1500
side looka1586
blench1609
side glance1611
leera1616
skew1622
askewa1641
gloat1645
glega1650
by-glancea1658
squint1673
by-view1753
sklent1818
glee1828
squinny1902
a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) i. iii. 40 Shee discourses: shee carues: she giues the leere [1602 lyre] of inuitation. View more context for this quotation
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 503 Aside the Devil turnd For envie, yet with jealous leer maligne Ey'd them askance. View more context for this quotation
1681 T. Otway Souldiers Fortune iii. i. 34 What a hang-dog leer was that?
1712 J. Arbuthnot App. to John Bull Still in Senses i. 8 The Fellow has a Roguish Leer with him, which I don't like by any means.
1734 A. Pope Epist. to Arbuthnot 201 Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer.
1743 H. Fielding Jonathan Wild iii. vii, in Misc. III. 230 She accompanied these Words with..so wanton a Leer, that [etc.].
1849 A. H. Layard Nineveh & Remains II. i. xiv. 149 Old Gouriel, the Kiayah, still rejoicing in his drunken leer, was there to receive us.
1863 G. J. Whyte-Melville Gladiators I. 143 A short, square, beetle-browed man, with a villanous leer.
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leern.3

Brit. /lɪə/, /lɛː/, U.S. /lɪ(ə)r/
Forms: Also lehr. Also 1700s–1800s lear, 1800s lier.
Glass-making.
a. An annealing-furnace. Also attributive, as lear-annealing; leer-pan n. = frache n.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > equipment > furnace or kiln > furnace > [noun] > glass-making furnaces
glass-furnace1632
calcar1662
leer1662
pot furnace1839
blowing-furnace1875
tank furnace1879
1662 C. Merrett tr. A. Neri Art of Glass 243 The Leer (made by Agricola, the third furnace, to anneal and cool the vessels..) comprehends two parts, the tower and leer.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Furnace The Leer is an Avenue five or six Yards long, continued to the Tower.
1797 P. Wakefield Mental Improv. (1801) I. 143 The lear or third furnace.
1797 Encycl. Brit. VII. 768/2 The third oven or leer.
1832 G. R. Porter Treat. Manuf. Porcelain & Glass 158 The annealing oven, or lier, is a long low rectangular chamber..furnished with numerous shallow iron trays... These trays are called lier pans, or fraiches.
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 579 The cooling or annealing arch, or leer, is often built independent of the glass-house furnace... The leer pans or trays of sheet iron.
1890 W. J. Gordon Foundry 140 The tunnel is the ‘lear’, and the process is known as lear-annealing.
1908 W. Rosenhain Glass Manuf. x. 165 The split cylinders are taken to a special kiln, generally known as a ‘lear’, or ‘lehr’, where they are..raised to a dull red-heat.
1918 P. Marson Glass x. 72 These tunnels, or lehrs, are about 40 ft. long.
1937 Nature 18 Dec. 1072/1 There has been a corresponding improvement..in lehrs for annealing the finished product.
1943 Amer. Speech 18 309/1 Among the latter were boys who carried hot glassware from the molds to the leer and toward the end of a shift they began a chant, ‘Ten more trips to the layer O,’ ‘Nine more trips to the layer O,’ and so on... They said ‘layer’ distinctly in two syllables.
1949 Jrnl. Soc. Glass Technol. 33 287 The term ‘lehr’ to denote an apparatus or plant for the continuous annealing of glass first appeared in factory usage in the U.S.A. between 1890 and 1900. The word arose most probably by corruption of the original form ‘leer’, but whether by accident or design is obscure.
1958 Times 22 Dec. 1/4 (advt.) Practical experience of design and construction of glass furnace lehrs also essential.
1965 E. Tunis Colonial Craftsmen vi. 139/1 A boy carried the new bottle to the leer where he snapped the punty off its bottom.
1971 Atom May 118/1 A ribbon of glass up to 11 feet wide leaves the float tank and enters the annealing lehr at temperatures in the region of 600°C.
b. leer man n. (also lehr man) one who works at a leer.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > glass-maker > [noun] > involved in specific process
glass-blower?1518
annealer1656
sarole-man1662
lamp-worker1665
leer man1849
founder1853
wetter-off1883
smalt-maker1921
smalter1923
presser1962
firer1998
1849 A. Pellatt Curiosities of Glass Making 67 The instruction to the lear-man, or fireman, rather to run the risk of melting goods by excess of heat than subject them to fly by insufficient.
1912 G. Sowerby Rutherford & Son 27 The new lear man's shaping all right then.
1965 E. Tunis Colonial Craftsmen vi. 139/1 A leer man stood the bottle on a hot iron tray in the leer.

Derivatives

ˈleering n. treatment in the ‘leer’.
ΚΠ
1889 Standard 5 Jan. 2/1 The English glass is brighter and better from lead being used, instead of lime, for ‘learing’, the lead ‘learing’ being more expensive.
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leern.4

Etymology: ? representing Old English lira the fleshy part of the body.
Obsolete exc. dialect.
The flank or loin; the hollow under the ribs.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > side > [noun] > loin or flank
lendc975
flankOE
liskc1175
reinsa1382
leerc1386
loin1398
fillet?a1400
swange?a1400
luddocka1475
lunyie?a1513
lumb?1541
iliums1583
c1386 G. Chaucer Sir Thopas 146 He dide next his white leere Of clooth of lake fyn and cleere A breech and eek a sherte.
1725 London Gaz. No. 6397/2 Stolen,..a..Mare,..several white Spots on her Body, one larger than the rest on the further Leer.
1746 Exmoor Courtship 21 Ha geed ma a Vulch in tha Leer.
1777–8 R. Wight Horæ Subsecivæ (MS Bodl. Eng. lang. d.66) 249 ‘Under the leer’, sub Costis—under the Hollow of the Ribs.
1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Leer, the flank—applied to man and beast.
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leeradj.1

Brit. /lɪə/, U.S. /lɪ(ə)r/
Forms: Middle English–1600s (1800s) lere, Middle English ler, 1500s leare, 1500s–1600s leere, 1600s leir, 1600s, 1800s dialect lear, 1800s dialect lair, Middle English– leer.
Etymology: Old English *lǽre (implied in lǽrnes emptiness) = Old Saxon, Old High German lâri (Middle High German læ̂re, modern German leer, Middle Dutch laer, Dutch laar) < West Germanic *lâri, of uncertain origin; according to some representing an Old Germanic *læ̂zjo-, cognate with Gothic lasiws weak.
1.
a. Empty. Also, clear of. Of a burden: Useless. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > [adjective]
leera1250
unprofitablea1398
noughtc1400
inutile1484
unutilea1500
vain1578
useless1593
unuseful1604
serviceless1608
aidless1674
unproductive1713
good-for-nothing1727
nowt1790
invaluable1803
stupid1844
dud1904
puckerooed1919
society > armed hostility > victory > [adjective] > unconquered > unoccupied
leera1250
unoccupied1829
the world > space > place > absence > fact of being unoccupied > [adjective] > empty
idlec825
toomOE
lankc1000
emptyOE
leera1250
i-lerc1275
vain1382
void1390
bare1399
vacanta1400
i-voidec1415
hollow1600
vake1600
clear1607
inane1662
blank1748
viduous1855
unchargeda1861
a1250 Owl & Nightingale 1527 [He] haveth attom his riȝte spuse, Wowes weste [an] lere huse.
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 1800 Þo was bruteine þis lond of romeins al mest lere.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 283 Ȝif þey fyndeþ it [Fortune's horn] empty [v.r. leer], þanne þey makeþ sorwe.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1871) III. 311 How longe schal a fool bere lere fardelles?
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. cxxxv. 1029 Þe pyth wiþinne is wasted, and þerfore þe hole is voyde and lere.
c1430 Two Cookery-bks. 50 Take þin cofyns, & put in þe ovynne lere.
c1440 Gesta Romanorum (Harl.) lxi. 252 ‘Do gete me’, quod she, ‘a ler tonne, withe oute onye delaye’.
1519 W. Horman Vulgaria xvi. f. 158v Let all your leere pottis [L. vasa inania] stande the mouthe downwarde.
1567 G. Turberville tr. Ovid Heroycall Epist. 16v Some lustfull Lasse will not permit Achylles coutch be leare.
1864 J. K. James tr. T. Tasso Jerusalem Deliv. xix. xxx Carnage had choked the town, no spot was leer.]
b. Proposed as a Pathology term.
ΚΠ
1893 S. J. Gee Auscult. & Percuss. (ed. 4) iii. 58 Skoda..distinguishes percussion sounds according as they are full or leer.
1893 S. J. Gee Auscult. & Percuss. (ed. 4) iii. 58 (note) Skoda's word ‘leer’ is translated by Markham ‘empty’. I formerly suggested ‘scanty’. But indeed the word ‘leer’ needs no translation, for it is English as well as German, and bears the same meaning in both tongues.
2. Having no burden or load; said also of a horse without a rider. Obsolete exc. dialect.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance by carrying > [adjective] > carried by a pack animal > without a load
leera1387
emptyc1503
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by purpose used for > [adjective] > of or relating to horse for riding > riderless
void1470
unstridden1570
leer1591
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 413 Þe foot man lere [printed lereþ] synge to fore þe þeef.
1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 8 Went he leere (quoth Socrates) or els charged with the charge of any burden?
1591 J. Harington tr. L. Ariosto Orlando Furioso xxxv. lxiv. 295 The horse runnes leere away without the man.
1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. xvii. xi. 94 Leading also after them in hand one lere horse.
1609 C. Butler Feminine Monarchie i. sig. A4v Bees..that are loaded seeme greater and longer then those that are leere.
1654 ‘Palaemon’ Friendship 32 An Asse,..over burthen'd with his Masters Carriage desired a Horse..led leer by him, to ease him by bearing a Part.
1688 A. Wood Life 7 Nov. 60 horsmen went thro Oxford,—with leir and sumpter horses.
1787 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. Leer, empty. Wilts. A leer waggon, an empty waggon.
1886 E. Whitaker Tip Cat (new ed.) xv. 199 They were on the top of a load..on their way to the rick-yard, promising to come back in what they call in those parts the ‘leer’ waggon.
1891 Athenæum 22 Aug. 255 In the country between Plymouth and Exeter between forty and fifty years ago any ‘unladen’ cart was familiarly spoken of as a lair or a lairy-cart.
3. dialect.
a. Of the stomach: empty of food.
ΚΠ
1853 J. Y. Akerman Wiltshire Tales 97 His bill was zharp, his stomach lear, Zo up a snapped the caddlin pair.
Proverb.1860 C. Reade Cloister & Hearth I. 312 Better a lean purse than a lere stomach.
b. Of persons and animals: having an empty stomach; hungry, faint for want of food.
ΚΠ
1848 C. Kingsley Saint's Trag. i. ii. 83 Then what's the friar to the starving peasant? Just what the abbot is to the greedy noble—A scarecrow to lear wolves.
1862 T. Hughes in Macmillan's Mag. V. 243/2 'Em be aggravatin' birds, plaguey cunnin' let 'em be never zo lear.
1870 F. P. Verney Lettice Lisle xxix. 308 Do ye tell Madam to send me a sup o' broth, or summat, I feel so leer.
1878 R. Jefferies Gamekeeper at Home 15 I'm rather lear at supper.
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leeradj.2

Forms: In 1600s leare, lere.
Etymology: apparently < leer v.
Obsolete.
Looking askance; oblique, indirect; sly, underhand.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > a look or glance > [adjective] > sideways
askanted1576
squintinga1593
askance1593
squint1611
leer1631
skaunt1791
squinnya1825
sideways-looking1832
cockeyed1852
skance1866
squinnying1973
the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > dishonesty > dishonest person > [adjective]
unjustc1400
bribing1530
unhonest1545
subornate1548
sinistrous1600
sinistruous1601
horse-fair1606
under-honest1609
left-handed1615
leer1631
dishonest1752
cross1819
one-eyed1833
crook1911
society > morality > moral evil > lack of principle or integrity > [adjective] > underhand or sneaky
subornate1548
sneaking1582
sinistral1598
sinistruous1601
left-sided1607
left-handed1615
meeching1616
leer1631
backstabbing1803
sneaky1834
underhand1842
sneakish1864
underhanded1864
low-down1905
the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > meaning of linguistic unit > implied meaning > [adjective]
implieda1535
gatherable1548
leer1631
subintelligential1887
loaded1942
1631 B. Jonson New Inne iv. iv. 282 Ile to bed, and sleepe, And dreame away the vapour of Loue, if th' house And your leere drunkards let me.
1633 J. Earle Micro-cosmogr. (ed. 6) lxxviii. sig. N11 A Suspitious, or Iealous Man Is one that watches himselfe a mischiefe, and keepes a leare eye still, for feare it should escape him.
a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) II. 207 He had rather have them bear two Senses in vain and impertinently, than one to the Purpose, and never speaks without a Lere-Sense.
a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) II. 459 He has a lere Trick,..to cry down all those Paces which he wants.
a1830 Young Musgrave viii, in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1885) II. iii. 249/1 The laddie gae a blythe leer look, A blythe leer look gave he.
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leerv.

Brit. /lɪə/, U.S. /lɪ(ə)r/
Forms: Also 1500s lere, 1500s–1600s leare, leere.
Etymology: Perhaps < leer n.1 in the sense ‘cheek’; the early examples of the verb suit well the explanation ‘to glance over one's cheek’.
1. intransitive. To look obliquely or askance; to cast side glances. Now only, to look or gaze with a sly, immodest, or malign expression in one's eye. Also with adverbs, as aside, up, back; occasionally with clause.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (intransitive)] > look sideways
schule?c1225
to look asidec1230
bagge1369
gogglec1380
to look awryc1400
slizec1400
leer1530
to look askew1538
skew1570
gloat1576
to glance one's eye, look1590
squean1608
squinny1608
squint1610
sken1611
sleer1680
glime1684
skime1691
side-glance1799
the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (intransitive)] > look malignantly
scowl1340
leer1530
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 606/2 I leare or lere, as a dogge dothe underneth a doore. Je regarde de longue veue.
1575 W. Stevenson Gammer Gurtons Nedle i. iii. sig. Aiiiv By chaunce a syde she leares And gyb our cat in the milke pan, she spied ouer head and eares.
1576 G. Gascoigne Complaynt of Phylomene in Steele Glas sig. O.ij And now on hir, and then on him, Full lowringly did leare.
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 v. v. 6 I will leere vpon him as a comes by, and do but marke the countenaunce that he will giue me. View more context for this quotation
1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. v. 187 Euen as a Wolfe,..Flies with downe-hanging head, and leereth backe Whether the Mastie doo pursue his tracke.
1647 H. More Philos. Poems i. ii. xcv Here Graculo learing up with one eye View'd the broad Heavens.
1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. iii. 164 Though Dame Fortune seem to smile And leer upon him for a while.
1720 J. Gay Mad-dog in Tales 35 They leer, they simper at her shame.
1735 A. Pope Of Char. of Women 6 Here Fannia leering on her own good man.
1821 C. Lamb in London Mag. Nov. 472/2 C.V.L., when importuned for a grace, used to inquire, first slyly leering down the table, ‘Is there no clergyman here?’
1853 W. M. Thackeray Eng. Humourists vi. 292 The foul Satyr's eyes leer out of the leaves constantly.
1853 C. Kingsley Hypatia II. iv. 69 He passed out through the antechamber, leering at the slave-girls.
figurative.1728 J. Swift Let. 26 Feb. in Corr. (1963) III. 267 I wonder whether you begin to tast the pleasure of independency, or whether you do not Sometimes leer upon the Court.
2. To walk stealthily or with averted looks; to slink away. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > stealthy action, stealth > stealthy movement > move stealthily [verb (intransitive)] > move off or away
steal1154
atslip?c1225
atcreepc1275
to steal one's wayc1385
glide1393
atslikec1400
fleetc1400
flinch1563
outsteala1586
leer1586
shift1594
shab1699
slive1707
ghost1833
to oil out1945
1586 J. Ferne Blazon of Gentrie 260 He came learing softlye on the other side the hedge.
a1635 T. Randolph Muses Looking-glasse ii. ii. 23 in Poems (1638) Who knows but they come learing after us To steale away the substance?
1666 J. Bunyan Grace Abounding ⁋144 Methought I saw as if the Tempter did lear and steal away from me, as being ashamed of what he had done.
1678 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 88 I met him once in the Streets, but he leered away on the other side, as one ashamed of what he had done. View more context for this quotation
1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words Leer, to go or sneak away. North.
3. transitive.
a. To give a leer with (the eye).
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (transitive)] > specific looks
leer1834
poker-face1926
1834 F. Marryat Jacob Faithful I. xi. 197 Leering his eye at his father.
1838 D. Jerrold M. Clear in Men of Char. (1851) ii. 141 [A parrot] cocking his head, leering his eye, and working his black tongue.
b. To beguile or reduce to by leering.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > flatter [verb (transitive)] > by facial expression
leer1681
1681 J. Dryden Spanish Fryar i. i. 6 But Bertran has been taught the Arts of Court, To guild a Face with Smiles; and leer a man to ruin.

Derivatives

ˈleering n.
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a1625 J. Fletcher Monsieur Thomas (1639) iv. ii. sig. H4v Footra for leers, and learings.
c1685 in Roxburghe Ballads VII. 426 She knew him a Knave by his learing.
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