weirds

1. 1
   verb

   Third-person singular simple present of weird.

   The dim, flickering hallway weirds out anyone who walks through it after midnight.

   Something about the abandoned house weirds out the neighborhood kids.

   Note

   The verb behind this form is transitive, so it always needs an object. Its older meanings turn fate into action: to destine or doom someone, to change them by sorcery, or to warn them solemnly. The same spelling serves the plural of the fate noun, so read the slot. After a subject it is the verb (she weirds him); after a determiner it is the noun (their weirds).

2. 2
   noun

   Plural of weird in its archaic sense of fate or destiny.

   Note

   A plural that belongs almost wholly to the old vocabulary of fate. Each person's weird was their destined lot, so weirds are the fortunes of many. The plural can also mean predictions or, in obsolete Scottish use, spells and charms. In the plural the word could even name the Fates themselves. Treat it as archaic: the noun's plural sounds deliberately antique, which suits myth and verse.

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