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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



... the low wail of the sad music is in our ears, the scene changes to a weird world of faery, the story merges in a dream, and Rip Van Winkle smiles at us from a realm beyond the diocese of conscience. If conscience, indeed, will obtrude, conscience shall be satisfied. It is a sermon if you will, but if you will, also, it is ...
— From the Easy Chair, vol. 1 • George William Curtis
... while the whip-like shadow of death writhed across a strip of moonlight—and disappeared. There was life,—of a sort, in Chitor. So Roy trod warily as he passed from room to room; dread of dark forgotten in the weird fascination ...
— Far to Seek - A Romance of England and India • Maud Diver
... he murmured over and over again. "The thoughts that well up in my bosom at such a sight as this are beyond the power of words to express. When I view these immense plains, these mountain tops fading away in the distance, these wild and weird torrents rushing over the rocks, and these trackless forests with often not a human abode in sight, ...
— The Rover Boys at Big Horn Ranch - The Cowboys' Double Round-Up • Edward Stratemeyer
... this guise it was, stumbling awkwardly over his unaccustomed skirts, shouting womanly imprecations upon his own head in a weird falsetto to sustain his part, and to the roaring note of a crowd bent upon lynching him, that the original discoverer of Herakleophorbia IV. proceeded down the corridor of Chesterfield Mansions, mingled with that inflamed disorderly multitude, ...
— The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth • H.G. Wells
... wherein to dwell upon this amazing tragedy, for scarcely had the boatswain been restored to his senses and conveyed below to his hammock to recover from the shock of his terrible adventure, when a low, weird, moaning sound suddenly became audible in the air all about the ship, the canvas of the close-reefed topsails, which had been flapping monotonously with the heave and roll of the ship, shivered and slatted violently for a moment, and a gust ...
— The Cruise of the Nonsuch Buccaneer • Harry Collingwood


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