ey·rie

or ey·ry (âr′ē, îr′ē)

Variants of aerie.

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eyrie

(ˈɪərɪ; ˈɛərɪ; ˈaɪərɪ) or

aerie

1. (Zoology) the nest of an eagle or other bird of prey, built in a high inaccessible place

2. (Zoology) the brood of a bird of prey, esp an eagle

3. any high isolated position or place

[C16: from Medieval Latin airea, from Latin ārea open field, hence nest]

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aer•ie

or aer•y

(ˈɛər i, ˈɪər i)

n., pl. aer•ies or ey•ries.

1. the lofty nest of a bird of prey, as an eagle.

2. a lofty nest of any large bird.

3. a dwelling located high on a hill or mountain.

4. Obs. the brood in a nest, esp. of a bird of prey.

[1575–85; < Anglo-French, Old French airie=aire (< Latin ager field, presumably “nest” in Vulgar Latin; see acre) + ie -y³]

ey·rie

(âr′ē)

The nest of an eagle or other predatory bird, built on a cliff or other high place.

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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	eyrie - the lofty nest of a bird of prey (such as a hawk or eagle) aerie, aery, eyry bird nest, birdnest, bird's nest - nest where birds lay their eggs and hatch their young
	2.	eyrie - any habitation at a high altitude aerie, aery, eyry habitation - the native habitat or home of an animal or plant

Translations

nido d'aquila

eyrie

[ˈaɪərɪ] N → aguilera f

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eyrie

n → Horst m

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They climbed out of the smelting town, where eyrie houses perched insecurely on a precipitous landscape.

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It had occurred to her to look once more into the queer gaunt room which had been Clare's den, or rather eyrie, for so long, and climbing the ladder she stood at the open door of the apartment, regarding and pondering.

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In fact, you will carry your money against all chances; and, whilst flying, you will only have obeyed the king; then, reaching the sea, when you like, you will embark for Belle-Isle, and from Belle-Isle you will shoot out wherever it may please you, like the eagle that leaps into space when it has been driven from its eyrie."

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I agreed with George, and suggested that we should seek out some retired and old-world spot, far from the madding crowd, and dream away a sunny week among its drowsy lanes - some half-forgotten nook, hidden away by the fairies, out of reach of the noisy world - some quaint-perched eyrie on the cliffs of Time, from whence the surging waves of the nineteenth century would sound far-off and faint.

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In its talons, the monster was bearing away to his eyrie in the heavens, a house from which it had knocked off the roof, and in the interior of which we distinctly saw human beings, who, beyond doubt, were in a state of frightful despair at the horrible fate which awaited them.

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Here, right up on the highest point, from which they say you can see eleven counties, they trenched round all the table-land, some twelve or fourteen acres, as was their custom, for they couldn't bear anybody to overlook them, and made their eyrie. The ground falls away rapidly on all sides.

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Mr Boffin having been several times in communication with this clerkly essence, both on its own ground and at the Bower, had no difficulty in identifying it when he saw it up in its dusty eyrie. To the second floor on which the window was situated, he ascended, much pre-occupied in mind by the uncertainties besetting the Roman Empire, and much regretting the death of the amiable Pertinax: who only last night had left the Imperial affairs in a state of great confusion, by falling a victim to the fury of the praetorian guards.

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Indeed, whatever being uttered that fearful shriek could not soon repeat it: not the widest-winged condor on the Andes could, twice in succession, send out such a yell from the cloud shrouding his eyrie. The thing delivering such utterance must rest ere it could repeat the effort.

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It is my principal stronghold on these hills; for (as you have doubtless noticed) the eyrie is invisible both from the road above and from the valley below.

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The Mark Boat hums off joyously and hangs herself up in her appointed eyrie. Here she will stay a shutterless observatory; a life-boat station; a salvage tug; a court of ultimate appeal-cum-meteorological bureau for three hundred miles in all directions, till Wednesday next when her relief slides across the stars to take her buffeted place.

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From his eyrie he waved his hand to Captain Lynch, and that doughty patriarch waved back.

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These merchants came to the valley at the time when the eagles, which keep their eyries in the rocks, had hatched their young.

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