Fleer

One who flees. Ld. Berners.

v. i. [imp. & p. p. FLEERED; p. pr. & vb. n. FLEERING.] [Scot. fleyr, to make wry faces, Icel. flyra, to smile, to laugh often.]

1Sense 1. To make a wry face in contempt, or to grin in scorn; to deride; to sneer; to mock; to gibe; as, to fleer and flout.

To fleer and scorn at our solemnity. Shak.

2Sense 2. To grin with an air of civility; to leer. [Obs.]

Grinning and fleering as though they went to a bear-baiting. Latimer.

v. t. To mock; to flout at. Beau. & Fl.

n. 1. Derision or mockery, expressed by words or looks. And mark the fleers, the gibes, and notable scorns. Shak. 2. A grin of civility; a leer. [Obs.] A treacherous fleer on the face of deceivers. South.