Hypertext Webster Gateway: "eldritch"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Eldritch \El"dritch\, a.
Hideous; ghastly; as, an eldritch shriek or laugh. [Local,
Eng.]
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
eldritch
adj : suggesting the operation of supernatural influences; "an
eldritch screech"; "the three weird sisters";
"stumps...had uncanny shapes as of monstrous
creatures"- John Galsworthy; "an unearthly light"; "he
could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing
the din"- Henry Kingsley [syn: {weird}, {uncanny}, {unearthly}]
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