weird sisters

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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Weird \Weird\, a. [1913 Webster]

1.Of or pertaining to fate; concerned with destiny. [1913 Webster]

2.Of or pertaining to witchcraft; caused by, or suggesting, magical influence; supernatural; unearthly; wild; as, a weird appearance, look, sound, etc. [1913 Webster]

Myself too had weird seizures.— Tennyson.[1913 Webster]
Those sweet, low tones, that seemed like a weird incantation.— Longfellow.[1913 Webster]

Weird sisters, the Fates. [Scot.] --G. Douglas. [1913 Webster]

Note: Shakespeare uses the term for the three witches in Macbeth. [1913 Webster]

The weird sisters, hand in hand, Posters of the sea and land.— Shak.[1913 Webster]
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