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▪ I. sleer, v. rare.
[Of obscure origin.]
intr. ? To look askance. Hence ˈsleering ppl. a.
The form may be genuine, as mod. dialects have sleer to sneer, and slire, slier, etc., to look askance. In some instances, however, where editions of 17th and 18th cent. works have sleer, the original reading is fleer.
1633P. Fletcher Purple Isl. vii. xlvi, Ecthros slie, Whose..sleering eyes still watch and wait to spie When to return still-living injuries. 1680T. Otway Caius Marius ii. i, But then Marius's Eye agen! how 'twill sparkle, and twinckle, and rowl, and sleer?
▪ II. sleer(e
obs. variants of slayer1. |