What is to grin with an air of civility; to leer. [Obs.] Grinning and fleering as though they went to a bear baiting. Latimer called?
fleer — To grin with an air of civility; to leer. [Obs.] Grinning and fleering as though they went to a bear baiting. Latimer. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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