3. A long notch with a horizontal edge, as in the top of a vertical plate or plank, through which water
flows, — used in measuring the quantity of flowing water.
Weird
(Weird) n. [OE. wirde, werde, AS. wyrd fate, fortune, one of the Fates, fr. weorðan to be, to
become; akin to OS. wurd fate, OHG. wurt, Icel. urðr. &radic143. See Worth to become.]
1. Fate; destiny; one of the Fates, or Norns; also, a prediction. [Obs. or Scot.]
2. A spell or charm. [Obs. or Scot.] Sir W. Scott.
Weird
(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.] 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
(Weird), v. t. To foretell the fate of; to predict; to destine to. [Scot.] Jamieson.
Weirdness
(Weird"ness), n. The quality or state of being weird.
Weism
(We"ism) n. Same as Wegotism.
Weive
(Weive) v. t. See Waive. [Obs.] Gower.
Weka
(We"ka) n. (Zoöl.) A New Zealand rail (Ocydromus australis) which has wings so short as to be
incapable of flight.
Wekau
(We"kau) n. (Zoöl.) A small New Zealand owl It has short wings and long legs, and lives chiefly
on the ground.
Wekeen
(We*keen") n. (Zoöl.) The meadow pipit. [Prov. Eng.]
Welaway
(Wel"a*way) interj. [OE. welaway, walaway, weilawey; wei wo! (Icel. vei) + la lo! (AS. la)
+ wei wo!; cf. AS. wa la wa. See Woe.] Alas! [Obs.]
Then welaway, for she undone was clean.
Wyatt. Wel-begone
(Wel"-be*gone`) a. [OE. wel-begon. See Well, and Begone.] Surrounded with happiness
or prosperity. [Obs.]
Fair and rich and young and wel-begone.
Chaucer. Welch
(Welch) a. See Welsh. [R.]
Welcher
(Welch"er) n. See Welsher.
