EERIE

{ Ee″rie, Ee″ry } (?), a. [[Scotch, fr. AS. earh timid.]] 1. 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. 2. Affected with fear; affrighted. Burns.