Weird
Weird (wērd) , noun
[Old English wirde, werde, Anglo-Saxon wyrd fate, fortune, one of the Fates, from weorean to be, to become; akin to Old Saxon wurd fate, Old High German wurt, Icelandic urer. r143. See Worth to become.]
1.
Fate; destiny; one of the Fates, or Norns; also, a prediction. [Obsolete or Scottish]
2.
A spell or charm. [Obsolete or Scottish] — Sir W. Scott
Weird , adjective
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.
The weird sisters, hand in hand,
Posters of the sea and land.
Collocations (1)
Weird sisters , the Fates. [Scottish] — G. Douglas
Shakespeare uses the term for the three witches in Macbeth.
Weird , transitive verb
To foretell the fate of; to predict; to destine to. [Scottish] — Jamieson