aery
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English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Noun[edit]
aery (plural aeries)
- Alternative form of eyrie
Etymology 2[edit]
Adjective[edit]
aery (comparative aerier, superlative aeriest)
- (poetic) aerial; ethereal; incorporeal; visionary.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 185–186:
- […] The Bird of Jove, ſtoopt from his aerie tour, / Two Birds of gayeſt plume before him drove: […]