Definition of Leers

1. Noun. (plural of leer) ¹

2. Verb. (third-person singular of leer) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Leers

1. leer [v] - See also: leer

Lexicographical Neighbors of Leers

leeping
leeps
leered
leerer
leerers
leerier
leeriest
leerily
leeriness
leerinesses
leering
leeringly
leerings
leerness
leers (current term)
leery
lees
leese
leeses
leesing
leesome
leesy
leet
leetle
leetman
leetmen
leets
leetspeak
leetspeek

Literary usage of Leers

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Systematic Arrangement of British Plants: With an Easy Introduction to the by William Withering (1801)
"... naked : scales egg-shaped, rather acute, shorter than the capsule, leers, 14, 7^Mich. ... 1$,and a separate spike at the bottom-leers 14. 6-Scheuch. 10. ..."

2. Hand-book of Chemistry by Leopold Gmelin, Henry Watts (1866)
"The mother-liquor yields, by spontaneous evaporation, dull white nodules, more easily soluble (leers). Oxalate of Cinchonidine ..."

3. A Treatise on the Law of Damages: Embracing an Elementary Exposition of the by Jabez Gridley Sutherland (1893)
"448, 600; Ex parte leers, id. 644; Chitty on Bills, *678. «Edwards v. Jones, 2 M. & AV. 414; Hunter v. Wilson, 4 Exch. 489; Thiedemann v. ..."

4. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1804)
"These are the agrostis seminuda, a variety of the A. vulgaris capillaris of leers—nigra of Withering ; 2. A. brevis, a variety of the A. stolonifera ; 3. ..."

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