leering

Verb (1)

leer (third-person singular simple present leers, present participle leering, simple past and past participle leered)

1. (intransitive) 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.1834 [1799], Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey, “The Devil's Thoughts”, in The Poetical Works of S. T. Coleridge, volume II, London: W. Pickering, page 86

   Synonyms:

   ogle

2. (transitive) To entice with a leer or leers.
   • But Bertran has been taught the Arts of Court, / To guild a Face with Smiles; and leer a man to ruin.1681, John Dryden, The Spanish Fryar: Or, the Double Discovery. […], London: […] Richard Tonson and Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, Act I, page 6

Verb (2)

leer (third-person singular simple present leers, present participle leering, simple past and past participle leered)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To teach.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To learn.

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