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from The Century Dictionary.

noun An obsolete and dialectal variant of fleer.

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I their works are graced with all tiie charms of modern tafte, 8 1 live on flender flire, who feed on air, 84

The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical 1790
Aecclcfiae conceffa z-el confiirnata funt, inquietare, - molefiare, vel difve - flire fine legali prefwnat auBoritate.

Antiquitates Italicae Medii Aevi, sive, Dissertationes de moribus, ritibus, religione, regimine, magistratibus, legibus, studiis literarum, artibus, lingua, militia, nummis, principibus, libertate, servitute, foederibus, aliisque faciem & mores Italici populi referentibus post declinationem Rom. Imp. ad annum usque MD : omnia illustrantur et confirmantur ingenti copia diplomatum et chartarum veterum, nunc primùm ex archivis Italiae depromtarum, additis etiam nummis, chronicis, aliisque monumentis nunquam antea editis 1773

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Gammerstang commented on the word flire

(verb) - To laugh, or rather to have a countenance expressive of laughter, without laughing out. From Icelandic flyra. --John Brockett's Glossary of North Country Words, 1825

February 7, 2018