Hypertext Webster Gateway: "weird"
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) 1.7 (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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