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  • noun rare Alternative spelling of eyrie.

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  • noun the lofty nest of a bird of prey (such as a hawk or eagle)
  • noun any habitation at a high altitude

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Examples

  • When Roland Graeme was a youth about seventeen years of age, he chanced one summer morning to descend to the mew in which Sir Halbert Glendinning kept his hawks, in order to superintend the training of an eyas, or young hawk, which he himself, at the imminent risk of neck and limbs, had taken from the celebrated eyry in the neighborhood, called Gledscraig.

    The Abbot 2008

  • There was only one good thing about them, if indeed it were good, to wit, their faith to one another, and truth to their wild eyry.

    Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

  • They were the eyry of freedom, and the pleasant region where unheeded I could commune with the creatures of my fancy.

    Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus Mary Shelley 2004

  • They were the eyry of freedom, and the pleasant region where unheeded I could commune with the creatures of my fancy.

    Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus Mary Shelley 2004

  • They were the eyry of freedom, and the pleasant region where unheeded I could commune with the creatures of my fancy.

    Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus Mary Shelley 2004

  • Such was the programme; and the eager curiosity of the select few who were invited brought them punctually to the philosopher's eyry.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861 Various

  • They were the eyry of freedom, and the pleasant region where unheeded I could commune with the creatures of my fancy.

    The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 Various

  • They were all brave men at Lepanto on this memorable October day; but few there were like the corsair king, in whom a heart of fire was kept in check by a brain of ice, who, during the whole combat, never gave away a chance, or failed to swoop like an eagle from his eyry when the blunders of his enemy gave him the opportunity for which he watched.

    Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean E. Hamilton Currey

  • The bald eagle never glanced so fiercely from his eyry.

    International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 9, August 26, 1850 Various

  • These, perched like the eagle's eyry on the very edge and summit of those crested heights that "breast the billows foam," are the _preventive stations_, inhabited by the _dumb_ and isolated members of the blockade.

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 384, August 8, 1829 Various

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