Definition of "weird"

In his introduction to the 1955 volume, [Ray] Bradbury singles out these stories as oddities in his canon — he wrote this kind of tale before his twenty-sixth birthday (1946), and rarely since. They are pure fantasy of the "weird" sort and include some of Bradbury's most striking pieces: "The Scythe" (1943), "The Lake" (1944), "The Jar" (1944), "Skeleton" (1945), and "The Small Assassin" (1946)

1978, Jeffrey Helterman, Richard Layman, editors, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 2: American Novelists Since World War II, Detroit, M.A.: Gale Research Company, page 62, column 1

Whiles I ſtood rapt in the wonder of it, came Miſſiues from the King, who all-hail'd me Thane of Cawdor, by which Title before, these weyward Sisters saluted me, and referr'd me to the comming on of time, with haile, King that ſhalt be.

c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act I, scene v], page 134, column 1

Those sweet, low tones, that seemed like a weird incantation.

1847 November 1, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie, Boston, Mass.: William D. Ticknor & Company, part I, page 134

It may be in that dark hour at the burn-foot, before the spate caught her, she had been given grace to resist her adversary and fling herself upon God's mercy. And it would seem that it had been granted; for when he came to the Skerburnfoot, there in the corner sat the weird wife Alison, dead as a stone.

1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide

Naphtha lamps shed a weird light over a busy scene, for the work was being continued night and day. A score or so of sturdy navvies were shovelling and picking along the track.

1912, Victor Whitechurch, Thrilling Stories of the Railway

Step by reluctant step, he had come to know his weird. The North must be saved from her.

1965, Poul Anderson, The Corridors of Time, page 226

In the weird of death shall the hapless be whelmed, and from Doom’s dark prison Shall she steal forth never again.

1912, Arthur S. Way, transl., Medea, Heinemenn, translation of original by Euripides, published 1946, page 361

Thou shalt bear thy penance lone In the Valley of Saint John, And this weird shall overtake thee

1813, Walter Scott, The Bridal of Triermain

You know why it feels so good to be amongst real friends? They allow you to be your weird and love you for it. Imagine how it would feel to freely let your weird out and have the world love you for it.

2019, Justin Blackburn, The Bisexual Christian Suburban Failure Enlightening Bipolar Blues, page 33

I waltzed into that club just as straight as a goose and I kept tripping over things and people were looking at me weird.

1972, Edwin Shrake, Strange Peaches: A Novel‎

Man, you're talking weird!

1974, Vernard Eller, The Most Revealing Book of the Bible: Making Sense Out of Revelation‎