Dictionary entry

Weird (2)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

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. G. Douglas.

☞ Shakespeare uses the term for the three witches in Macbeth.

The weird sisters, hand in hand,

Posters of the sea and land. Shak.