Noah Webster
Fleer
FLEER, verb intransitive
1. To deride; to sneer; to mock; to gibe; to make a wry face in contempt, or to grin in scorn; as, to fleer and flout.
Covered with an antic face,
To fleer and scorn at our soleminity.
2. To leer; to grin with an air of civility.
A teacherous fleer on the face of deceivers.
FLEER, verb transitive to mock; to flout at.
FLEER, noun
1. Derision or mockery, expressed by words or looks.
And mark the fleers, the gibes, and notable scorns.
2. A grin of civility.
A treacherous fleer on the face of deceivers.