(n.) A wild cat (Felis eyra) ranging from southern Brazil to Texas. It is reddish yellow and about the size of the domestic cat, but with a more slender body and shorter legs.
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Eyry
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(n.) The nest of a bird of prey or other large bird that builds in a lofty place; aerie.
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(1) Next, sensations recorded by means of direct stimulation of the acoustic nerve (DJOURNO and EYRIES) or by implantation of intra-cochlear electrodes (SIMMONS, DOYLE, MICHELSON) were studied.
(2) Without encountering another soul, our hero strides into an anonymous lobby and is whisked up to a vast, sparkling eyrie, worthy of a Bond villain’s hideout.
(3) Trinity Mirror chief executive Sly Bailey, gazing across London from her Canary Wharf eyrie as she contemplates how to capitalise on the Burrell coup and permanently reverse the downward fortunes of the Daily Mirror and its Sunday stablemates, will not be cheered by the reminder that while blondes may have more fun, moguls have more muscle.
(4) It was understandable poetic licence from the press-box eyrie.
(5) Plater's agent for many years was the terrifying Peggy Ramsay, whom he memorialised in his Hampstead theatre play, Peggy for You (1999), with Maureen Lipman giving one of her greatest performances, ruling the roost in her St Martin's Lane eyrie with the eccentric hauteur of a mad Russian empress.
(6) It's not building social housing, however, but steel and glass eyries designed mainly (to paraphrase Mike Leigh) to give absentee landlords a nice, clear view of the class struggle down below.
(7) She must have been a terrifyingly precocious child – growing up in her Camberley eyrie, obsessed by birds of prey from the age of eight.
(8) She was always taking the long view, the overview, speaking for "us", though what she saw from her eyrie kept changing.
(9) The Arryns of the Vale Perhaps having said Arryn of the Eyrie a few too many times, Lady Lysa of the Vale, eager for revenge and lax about public lactation, had seemingly lost her marbles.