Meaning of Leer | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A town, the county seat of Leer County, Unity State, South Sudan.
2. A significant side glance; a glance expressive of some passion, as malignity, amorousness, etc.; a sly or lecherous look.
3. The cheek.
   obsolete
4. A town and rural district of Lower Saxony, Germany.
5. A small hamlet in Long Rapids Township, Alpena County, Michigan.
6. A county of Unity State, South Sudan.
7. An arch or affected glance or cast of countenance.
8. The face.
   obsolete
9. One's appearance; countenance.
   obsolete
10. Complexion; hue; colour.
    obsolete
11. Flesh; skin.
    obsolete
12. The flank or loin.
    UK, dialectal

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Examples

“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.”

““[…]They say he has sold himself to the devil for a pretty face. It’s nigh on eighteen years since I met him. He hasn’t changed much since then. I have, though,” she added, with a sickly leer.”

“I rose and bade him good-night, with a last impression of him leaning back in his dressing-gown, a sodden cigar-end in the corner of his mouth, his beard all slopped with whisky, and his half-glazed eyes looking sideways after me with the leer of a satyr.”

““[…]I have friends—good friends—like you, Dr. Seward”; this was said with a leer of inexpressible cunning.”

“There was a nasty leer upon his face as he stepped close to her and spoke again. I could not hear his words, but her answer came clearly.”

“No ladie (quoth the earle with a lowd voice, and the tears trilling downe his leeres)”

“a Rosalind of a better leer than you”

“Here's a young lad fram'd of another leer. Look, how the black slave smiles upon the father;”

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