weird sisters

2 definitions found

weird sisters - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Weird \Weird\, a.
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     1. Of or pertaining to fate; concerned with destiny.
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     2. Of or pertaining to witchcraft; caused by, or suggesting,
        magical influence; supernatural; unearthly; wild; as, a
        weird appearance, look, sound, etc.
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              Myself too had weird seizures.        --Tennyson.
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              Those sweet, low tones, that seemed like a weird
              incantation.                          --Longfellow.
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     Weird sisters, the Fates. [Scot.] --G. Douglas.
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     Note: Shakespeare uses the term for the three witches in
           Macbeth.
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                 The weird sisters, hand in hand,
                 Posters of the sea and land.       --Shak.
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weird sisters - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  29 Moby Thesaurus words for "Weird Sisters":
     Atropos, Clotho, Dame Fortune, Decuma, Fata, Fates, Fortuna,
     Heaven, Lachesis, Moirai, Morta, Nona, Norns, Parcae, Providence,
     Skuld, Tyche, Urdur, Verthandi, Weirds, coven, hag, hex, lamia,
     shamaness, sorceress, witch, witchwife, witchwoman