eery : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: eery	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for eery
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
eery adj inspiring a feeling of fear; strange and frightening; "an uncomfortable and eerie stillness in the woods"; "an eerie midnight howl" Synonym(s): eerie, eery
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Eerie \Ee"rie\, Eery \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.