{ Ee″rie, 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.