aery
English
editEtymology 1
editNoun
editaery (plural aeries)
- Alternative form of eyrie
Etymology 2
editAdjective
editaery (comparative aerier, superlative aeriest)
- (poetic) aerial; ethereal; incorporeal; visionary.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →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: […]