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Weird (w&ē;rd), n. [OE. wirde, werde, AS. wyrd fate, fortune, one of the Fates, fr. weorðan to be, to become; akin to OS. wurd fate, OHG. wurt, Icel. urðr. √143. See Worth to become.]
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1. Fate; destiny; one of the Fates, or Norns; also, a prediction. [Obs. or Scot.]
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2. A spell or charm. [Obs. or Scot.] Sir W. Scott.
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Weird, a.
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1. Of or pertaining to fate; concerned with destiny.
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2. Of or pertaining to witchcraft; caused by, or suggesting, magical influence; supernatural; unearthly; wild; as, a weird appearance, look, sound, etc.
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Myself too had weird seizures. Tennyson.
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Those sweet, low tones, that seemed like a weird incantation. Longfellow.
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Weird sisters, the Fates. [Scot.] G. Douglas.
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&hand_; Shakespeare uses the term for the three witches in Macbeth.
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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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