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Aery

adjective
1.
Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air.  Synonyms: aerial, aeriform, airy, ethereal.  "Aerial fancies" , "An airy apparition" , "Physical rather than ethereal forms"






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"Aery" Quotes from Famous Books



... he seemed to glory that he could navigate the air without them. Besides, the motion of these, had he used them, might have caught the eye of his intended victim, and warned it of the danger. I say it was a beautiful sight to watch him as he swam through his aery circles, at one moment appearing all white—as his breast was turned to the spectators—the next moment his black back and purple wings glittering in the sun, as sideways he guided himself down the spiral curve. It was a beautiful sight, and the young ...
— The Boy Hunters • Captain Mayne Reid

... dreamt that I was swimming, shoulder up, And drave the bed-clothes spreading to the floor: Coldness awoke me; through the waning darkness I heard far hounds give shivering aery tongue, Remote, withdrawing, suddenly faint and near; I leapt and saw a pack of stretching weasels Hunt a pale coney in a soundless rush, Their elfin and thin yelping pierced my heart As with an unseen beauty long awaited; Wolf-skin and cloak I buckled ...
— Georgian Poetry 1913-15 • Edited by E. M. (Sir Edward Howard Marsh)



Words linked to "Aery" :   ethereal, airy, bird's nest, unsubstantial, unreal, insubstantial, bird nest, birdnest, habitation



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