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  4  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Weird  \Weird\  (w[=e]rd),  n.  [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  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Weird  \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. 
 
  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  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Weird  \Weird\,  v.  t. 
  To  foretell  the  fate  of  to  predict;  to  destine  to  [Scot.] 
  --Jamieson. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  weird 
  adj  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 
  n  :  Fate  personified;  one  of  the  Three  Weird  Sisters  [syn:  {Wyrd}, 
  {Weird}]




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