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.