EERIE; EERY

a.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

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.
a.

Affected with fear; affrighted. Burns.


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