From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [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]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
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.]
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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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Weird \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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Note: 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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Weird \Weird\, v. t.
To foretell the fate of; to predict; to destine to. [Scot.]
--Jamieson.
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