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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)