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Webster 1913 Edition

Eery

{

Ee′rie

,

Ee′ry

}
,
Adj.
[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.

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