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leer
1 [leer]
–verb (used without object)
| 1. | to look with a sideways or oblique glance, esp. suggestive of lascivious interest or sly and malicious intention: I can't concentrate with you leering at me. |
–noun
| 2. | a lascivious or sly look. |
Origin:
1520–30; perh. v. use of obs. leer cheek (ME leor, OE hlēor; c. ON hlȳr (pl.))
1520–30; perh. v. use of obs. leer cheek (ME leor, OE hlēor; c. ON hlȳr (pl.))

Related forms:
leer⋅ing⋅ly, adverb
lee
1 [lee]
–noun
| 1. | protective shelter: The lee of the rock gave us some protection against the storm. |
| 2. | the side or part that is sheltered or turned away from the wind: We erected our huts under the lee of the mountain. |
| 3. | Chiefly Nautical. the quarter or region toward which the wind blows. |
–adjective
—Idioms| 4. | pertaining to, situated in, or moving toward the lee. |
| 5. | by the lee, Nautical. accidentally against what should be the lee side of a sail: Careless steering brought the wind by the lee. |
| 6. | under the lee, Nautical. to leeward. |
Origin:
bef. 900; ME; OE hlēo(w) shelter, c. OFris hli, hly, OS hleo, ON hlé
bef. 900; ME; OE hlēo(w) shelter, c. OFris hli, hly, OS hleo, ON hlé

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Leer
Leer\ (l[=e]r), v. t. To learn. [Obs.] See Lere, to learn.Leer
Leer\, a. [OE. lere; akin to G. leer, OHG. & OS. l[=a]ri.] [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Empty; destitute; wanting; as: (a) Empty of contents. "A leer stomach." --Gifford. (b) Destitute of a rider; and hence, led, not ridden; as, a leer horse. --B. Jonson. (c) Wanting sense or seriousness; trifling; trivolous; as, leer words.Leer
Leer\, n. An oven in which glassware is annealed.Leer
Leer\, n. [OE. lere cheek, face, look, AS. hle['o]r cheek, face; akin to OS. hlear, hlior, OD. lier, Icel. hl[=y]r.]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.Leer
Leer\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Leered (l[=e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Leering.] 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 leerupon him as a' comes by. --Shak. The priest, above his book, Leering at his neighbor's wife. --Tennyson.Leer
Leer\, v. t. To entice with a leer, or leers; as, to leer a man to ruin. --Dryden.
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Language Translation for : leer
Spanish:
mirada lasciva,
German:
gehässiges Lächeln, gehässiger Seitenblick,
Japanese:
色目
leer (v.)
"to look obliquely" (now usually implying "with a lustful or malicious intent"), 1530, from M.E. noun ler "cheek," from O.E. hleor "the cheek, the face," from P.Gmc. *khleuzas "near the ear," from *kleuso- "ear," from PIE root *kleu- "to hear" (see listen). The notion is probably of "looking askance" (cf. figurative development of cheek). The noun is first attested 1598.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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