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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged 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. [Scot.]
 Note: ☞ Shakespeare uses the term for the three witches in Macbeth.
 The weird sisters, hand in hand,
 Posters of the sea and land.   --Shak.

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 Weird Sisters
      n : a group of three goddesses of destiny [syn: Fates, the
           Fates]