a. [f. WEIRD sb. + -LIKE.] Suggestive of the supernatural, ominous, eery, uncanny. Of a person: Uncanny-looking.

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1830.  R. Montgomery, Satan, III. 349–50.

                    The weird-like tempest sound
O’er his dark chamber mutter’d, bade him dream
Of wilds, and whirlwinds havocking the night
Afar.

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1833.  Sydney Morning Herald, 18 Feb., 4/1.

        From thy remembrance, a deep tincture caught,
And heart and brain mysteriously wrought
A weird-like web, I could not, would not rend.

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1841.  Wisconsin Express, 14 July, 2/1.

        I gaze upon the scene, and thou dost come
  From out each silent leaf and ray of light,
And nestle to my heart as ’t were thy home,
  With all thy weird-like visions of delight.

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1854.  Grace Greenwood, Haps & Mishaps, 113. The almost deathly quiet, the oppressive loneliness, the strange deep, unearthly gloom of this mouldering city of the dead are things to be felt in all their melancholy and weird-like power.

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1856.  Miss Mulock, J. Halifax, vi. Still I bear the awe-struck, questioning, weird-like tone.

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1875.  G. Jacque, Hope, iii. 35. Along that dismal silent road A weirdlike man was seen to plod.

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1884.  W. C. Smith, Kildrostan, 45. So weird-like was the feeling of the place.

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