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.
Shakespeare uses the term for the three witches in Macbeth.
The weird sisters, hand in hand, Posters of the sea and land.
Shak.
Weird, v. t. To foretell the fate of; to predict; to destine to.
[Scot.] Jamieson.
Weird"ness, n. The quality or state of being weird.
We"ism (?), n. Same as Wegotism.
Weive (?), v. t. See Waive. [Obs.] Gower.
We"ka (?), n. (Zoöl.) A New Zealand rail (Ocydromus australis) which
has wings so short as to be incapable of flight.
We"kau (?), n. (Zoöl.) A small New Zealand owl (Sceloglaux albifacies).
It has short wings and long legs, and lives chiefly on the ground.