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.
[Obs. or Scot.]
2.
A spell or charm.
[Obs. or Scot.]
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.
[Scot.]
Jamieson.
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