'Leer' definitions:

Definition of 'leer'

noun

A facial expression of contempt or scorn; the upper lip curls [syn: sneer, leer]

noun

A suggestive or sneering look or grin

verb

Look suggestively or obliquely; look or gaze with a sly, immodest, or malign expression; "The men leered at the young women on the beach"

From: GCIDE

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. [1913 Webster]
I will leerupon him as a' comes by. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
The priest, above his book, Leering at his neighbor's wife. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]

From: GCIDE

From: GCIDE

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. [1913 Webster]

From: GCIDE

Leer \Leer\, v. t. To entice with a leer, or leers; as, to leer a man to ruin. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]

From: GCIDE

From: GCIDE

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. [1913 Webster]
2. Complexion; aspect; appearance. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
A Rosalind of a better leer than you. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
3. A distorted expression of the face, or an indirect glance of the eye, conveying a sinister or immodest suggestion. [1913 Webster]
With jealous leer malign Eyed them askance. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
She gives the leer of invitation. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer. --Pope. [1913 Webster]