Weird: Definition and part of speech

Weird

  1. v. t. To foretell the fate of; to predict; to destine to.
  2. n. Fate; destiny; one of the Fates, or Norns; also, a prediction.
  3. n. A spell or charm.
  4. a. Of or pertaining to fate; concerned with destiny.
  5. a. Of or pertaining to witchcraft; caused by, or suggesting, magical influence; supernatural; unearthly; wild; as, a weird appearance, look, sound, etc.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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