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Weird   /wɪrd/   Listen
adjective
Weird  adj.  
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." "Those sweet, low tones, that seemed like a weird incantation."
Weird sisters, the Fates. (Scot.) Note: Shakespeare uses the term for the three witches in Macbeth. "The weird sisters, hand in hand, Posters of the sea and land."


noun
Weird  n.  
1.
Fate; destiny; one of the Fates, or Norns; also, a prediction. (Obs. or Scot.)
2.
A spell or charm. (Obs. or Scot.)


verb
Weird  v. t.  To foretell the fate of; to predict; to destine to. (Scot.)





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"Weird" Quotes from Famous Books



... knowing it rendered it, as we shall see, so great a service. But the body of Theodoric did not long remain in the enormous silence of that sepulchre. Even in the time of Agnellus (ninth century) the body was no longer in the mausoleum and what had become of it will always remain a mystery. A weird and awful legend, in keeping with the tremendous tragedy that was played out in his time and in which he had filled the main role, relates how a holy hermit upon the island of Lipari on the day ...
— Ravenna, A Study • Edward Hutton
... the women of those days? Viewed in its larger aspects this was an objective, not a subjective religion. It could but make the sensitive soul super-sensitive, introspective, morbidly alive to uncanny and weird suggestions, and strangely afraid of the temptation of enjoying earthly pleasures. Its followers dared not allow themselves to become deeply attached to anything temporal; for such an emotion was the device of the devil, and God would surely remove the object of ...
— Woman's Life in Colonial Days • Carl Holliday
... night, and the long procession of big bullocks looked weird and strange in the gloom, for at times they seemed to be drawing nothing, so closely did the tilt of the great lightly-loaded wagon assimilate with the drab dusty tint of the parched earth and the dusky-coloured scrub which the ...
— A Dash from Diamond City • George Manville Fenn
... when they returned, and in the calm of a wonderful evening, with the comforting peace of the mountains smiling down at them, Olaf believed the time had come to speak what was in his mind. He spoke first of the weird tricks of the Alaskan waters, and of strange forces deep down under the surface which he had never had explained to him, and of how he had lost a cask once upon a time, and a week later had run upon it well upon its way to Japan. He emphasized the hide-and-seek playfulness of the undertows and ...
— The Alaskan • James Oliver Curwood
... the meaning of these apertures there came a repetition of the weird cry, but this time the lad was so startled that he almost lost his balance ...
— The Boy Aviators in Africa • Captain Wilbur Lawton


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