Dictionary: EY'OT – EY'RY

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EY'OT, a.

A little isle. Blackstone.

EYRE, n. [ire; Old Fr. from L. iter.]

  1. Literally, a journey or circuit. In England, the justices in eyre were itinerant judges, who rode the circuit to hold courts in the different counties.
  2. A court of itinerant justices. Blackstone.

EY'RY, n.

The place where birds of prey construct their nests and hatch. It is written also eyrie. [See Aerie.] The eagle and the stork / On cliffs and cedar-tops their eyries build. Milton.