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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Weird \Weird\, adjective
1. Of or pertaining to fate; concerned with destiny.
2. Of or pertaining to witchcraft; caused by, or suggesting, magical influence; supernatural; unearthly; wild; as, a weird appearance, look, sound, etc.
Myself too had weird seizures. --Tennyson.
Those sweet, low tones, that seemed like a weird incantation. --Longfellow.
{Weird sisters}, the Fates. [Scot.] --G. Douglas.
Note: Shakespeare uses the term for the three witches in Macbeth.
The weird sisters, hand in hand, Posters of the sea and land. --Shak.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Weird \Weird\ (w[=e]rd), noun [OE. wirde, werde, AS. wyrd fate, fortune, one of the Fates, fr. weor[eth]an to be, to become; akin to OS. wurd fate, OHG. wurt, Icel. ur[eth]r. [root]143. See {Worth} to become.]
1. Fate; destiny; one of the Fates, or Norns; also, a prediction. [Obs. or Scot.]
2. A spell or charm. [Obs. or Scot.] --Sir W. Scott.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Weird \Weird\, verb (used with an object) To foretell the fate of; to predict; to destine to. [Scot.] --Jamieson.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
weird
adjective
1: 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: {eldritch}, {uncanny}, {unearthly}]
2: strikingly odd or unusual; "some trick of the moonlight; some weird effect of shadow"- Bram Stoker
noun: Fate personified; one of the three Weird Sisters [syn: {Wyrd}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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