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Eerie; Eery
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828
Part of speech: adjective (a.)
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.