2. Verb. (third-person singular of leer) ¹
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Definition of Leers
1. leer [v] - See also: leer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Leers
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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