(The), subs. phr. (literary).—The Fates: also THREE WEIRD SISTERS.

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  1512–3.  DOUGLAS, Ænid, iii.

        The remanent hereof, quhat euer be it,
The WEIRD SISTERIS defendis that suld be wit.

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  1606.  SHAKESPEARE, Macbeth, ii. 1. 20. I dreamt last night of the three WEIRD SISTERS.

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