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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



... there is a touch of chaos that suggests the infinite. The melodies seem strange and changing forms, like summer clouds, and weird harmonies come like sounds from the sea brought by fitful winds, and others moan like waves on desolate shores, and mingled with these, are shouts of joy, with sighs and sobs and ripples of laughter, and the wondrous voices ...
— Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O • Various
... far off my science witnessed, All these fatal auguries Seen though dimly in the distance, I resolved to chain the monster That unhappily life was given to, To find out if yet the stars Owned the wise man's weird dominion. It was publicly proclaimed That the sad ill-omened infant Was stillborn. I then a tower Caused by forethought to be builded 'Mid the rocks of these wild mountains Where the sunlight scarce can gild it, Its glad entrance being barred By these rude ...
— Life Is A Dream • Pedro Calderon de la Barca
... draw, Willie, A comely weird to dree, For the Royal Rose that's like the snaw, And the King that's on ...
— New Collected Rhymes • Andrew Lang
... to puffins and pirates. Over the single landing-place frowns from the cliff the keep of an old ruin, 'Moresco Castle,' as they call it still, where some bold rover, Sir John de Moresco, in the times of the old Edwards, worked his works of darkness: a gray, weird, uncanny pile of moorstone, through which all the winds of heaven howl ...
— Sir Walter Raleigh and his Time from - "Plays and Puritans and Other Historical Essays" • Charles Kingsley
... clear, with a touch of frost in the air, yet with the feeling in it of approaching spring. A dim light fell over the forest from the half-moon and the stars, and seemed to fill up the little clearing in which the manse stood, with a weird and mysterious radiance. Far away in the forest the long-drawn howl of a wolf rose and fell, and in a moment sharp and clear came an answer from the bush just at hand. Mrs. Murray dreaded the wolves, but she was no coward and scorned to ...
— The Man From Glengarry - A Tale Of The Ottawa • Ralph Connor


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