leer

To look sideways or obliquely; now especially with sexual desire or malicious intent.

And she looked to Mr. –––– / And leered like a love-sick pigeon.

I thought I saw him leer in an ugly way at me while the decanters were going round, but as there was no love lost between us, that might easily be.

To entice with a leer or leers.

But Bertran has been taught the Arts of Court, / To guild a Face with Smiles; and leer a man to ruin.

A significant side glance; a glance expressive of some passion, as malignity, amorousness, etc.; a sly or lecherous look.

Nevertheless humanity stood before him no longer in the pensive sweetness of Italian art, but in the staring and ghastly attitudes of a Wiertz Museum, and with the leer of a study by Van Beers.

“[…]They say he has sold himself to the devil for a pretty face. It’s nigh on eighteen years since I met him. He hasn’t changed much since then. I have, though,” she added, with a sickly leer.

An arch or affected glance or cast of countenance.

The cheek.

No ladie (quoth the earle with a lowd voice, and the tears trilling downe his leeres)

The face.

One's appearance; countenance.

a Rosalind of a better leer than you

Complexion; hue; colour.

Here's a young lad fram'd of another leer. Look, how the black slave smiles upon the father;

Flesh; skin.