Ee"rie, Ee"ry (?), a. [Scotch, fr. AS. earh timid.]

1.

Serving to inspire fear, esp. a dread of seeing ghosts; wild; weird; as, eerie stories.

She whose elfin prancer springs By night to eery warblings. Tennyson.

2.

Affected with fear; affrighted.

Burns.

 

© Webster 1913.

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