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Alt. of Eery

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  1. a. Alt. of Eery
  2. adj. suggestive of the supernatural; mysterious
  3. adj. inspiring a feeling of fear; strange and frightening
  4. 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.
  5. j:100 s. suggestive of the supernatural; mysterious s. inspiring a feeling of fear; strange and frightening