Weird (?), n. [OE. wirde, werde, AS. wyrd fate, fortune, one of the Fates, fr. weoran to be, to become; akin to OS. wurd fate, OHG. wurt, Icel. urr. 143. See Worth to become.]

1.

Fate; destiny; one of the Fates, or Norns; also, a prediction.

2.

A spell or charm.

Sir W. Scott.

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Weird, a.

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.

Shakespeare uses the term for the three witches in Macbeth.

The weird sisters, hand in hand, Posters of the sea and land. Shak.

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Weird, v. t.

To foretell the fate of; to predict; to destine to.

Jamieson.

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