Crossword clues for eyrie
eyrie
- Observer guards river with one bird's nest
- Nursery for high-flyers?
- Famous female lead embracing one point of observation
- Place where the chicks are all high?
- Jane tours one highly isolated position
- High spot - of English year, that is
- High altitude habitation
- Dictator’s sinister observation post?
- Eagle's home: Var
- Hawk's haven
- High perch
- High nest (Var.)
- Mountain nest
- Lofty nest (var.)
- Eagle’s nest
- Condor's nest (Var.)
- Nest of a bird of prey
- Mountaintop castle in "A Game of Thrones," with "the"
- Lofty nest: Var
- Isolated nest: Var
- Eagle’s nest: Var
- Eagle's home (Var.)
- Nest for 21-Down: Var.
- Lofty nest: Var.
- High nest: Var.
- Isolated nest: Var.
- The lofty nest of a bird of prey (such as a hawk or eagle)
- Any habitation at a high altitude
- Lofty, snug retreat
- High nest: Var
- Eagle's nest: Var
- Hawk's home
- Craggy nest
- Home on high
- High home
- Hawk's nest
- Condor's home
- Vantage point, one adopted by Jane
- Governess protecting current brood here
- Creepy-sounding place that's hard to get to
- Clifftop home creepy, we hear?
- Eponymous heroine saves island home for birds
- Eponymous heroine houses one in high fortification
- Eagle’s attribute seen around river and island nest
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Eyrie \Ey"rie\, Eyry \Ey"ry\ ([=a]"r[y^] or [=e]"r[y^]; 277), n.; pl. Ey"ries (-r[i^]z). [See Aerie] The nest of a bird of prey or other large bird that builds in a lofty place; aerie.
The eagle and the stork
On cliffs and cedar tops their eyries build.
--Milton.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
see aerie.
Wiktionary
n. A bird of prey's nest.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Eyrie may refer to:
- The nest of a hawk, eagle, falcon or other bird of prey (variant of aerie)
- The Eyrie Vineyards, an American winery in Oregon
- Eyrie Bay, a bay in Antarctica
- Eyrie, a Neopet.
- A novel by Tim Winton, published in 2013.
- The Eyrie, the seat of the Great Eagles of the Misty Mountains in the fictional world of Middle-earth
Eyrie (2013) is a novel by Australian author Tim Winton. It was shortlisted for the 2014 Miles Franklin Literary Award.
Usage examples of "eyrie".
As she went down to break her fast, Alayne was struck again by the stillness of the Eyrie.
Separated by three flights of stairs from his nurse, laid to rest each night under the pelt of a polar bear which the Basher had shot in Alaska, Quin had gone to bed in terror -yet even then he would not have changed his eyrie for the world.
At the start of that hot, thundery summer I leaned out of my window watching the world pass below, convinced that somebody somewhere would still need watercolours, gouaches and pencil sketches, and that I could produce them from my penthouse eyrie.
Den, hive, nest, nidus, eyrie, newlywed starter home: they build themselves a pallet on the floor.
I was, closing in on that eyrie, filled with the treasure of a thousand years of tribute and the sweat of miners in a dozen slaggy towns among the Rivals who laboured in the shafts for the gold.
The Archangel Alleluia sat in one of the locked, soundproofed music rooms that lined the lower level of the Eyrie, and wondered why this was always the setting when she received bad news.
The eagle had an eyrie home, The blithesome bird its quiet rest, But not the humblest spot on earth Was by the Son of God possessed.
Beyond them, the eyrie lifted off into the sky from massive cantilevered supports, like some vast premillennial rocket poised for launch.
I long for the rushing winds, the piled-up peaks, the great pines, the wild night noises, the poetry and the prose of the free, jolly life of my unrivalled eyrie.
Velora was a bustling, happy, cosmopolitan town nestled at the foot of the imposing Velo mountain from which the Eyrie had been carved.
So she left early the following morning and made the lazy, easy flight back to the Velo Mountains and their tireless, bustling heart, the Eyrie.
Birds of prey, winging from the sea, rising from marshlands, swooping from eyries, hover screaming, gannets, cormorants, vultures, goshawks, climbing woodcocks, peregrines, merlins, blackgrouse, sea eagles, gulls, albatrosses, barnacle geese.
At the start of that hot, thundery summer I leaned out of my window watching the world pass below, convinced that somebody somewhere would still need watercolours, gouaches and pencil sketches, and that I could produce them from my penthouse eyrie.
I calmed down and hurried back to the horses, impatient to get the panniers and take them to the eyrie entrance behind the waterfall.
He was merely sweeping treasure out the eyrie entrance, like Roolie would sweep crumbs from a table with a forearm.