Rune

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  • noun. A Finnish poem or section of a poem.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. Any of the characters in several alphabets used by ancient Germanic peoples from the 3rd to the 13th century.
  • noun. A similar character in another alphabet, sometimes believed to have magic powers.
  • noun. A poem or incantation of mysterious significance, especially a magic charm.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A letter or character used by the peoples of northern Europe from an early period to the eleventh century; in the plural, the ancient Scandinavian alphabets, believed to be derived from a Greek source; especially, the letters carved on stones, weapons, etc., found in Scandinavia, Scotland, and Ireland. Runes are found in almost all the maritime parts of Europe.
  • noun. A short mystic sentence embodying the wisdom of the old Northern philosophers.
  • noun. A secret; mystery; obscure saying.
  • noun. Early rimes or poetry expressed, or which might be expressed, in runic characters.
  • noun. Any song, poem, verse, or the like, which is mystically or obscurely expressed.
  • noun. An obsolete variant of rine, run.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A letter, or character, belonging to the written language of the ancient Norsemen, or Scandinavians; in a wider sense, applied to the letters of the ancient nations of Northern Europe in general.
  • noun. Old Norse poetry expressed in runes.
  • noun. a stone bearing a runic inscription.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A letter, or character, belonging to the written language of various ancient Germanic peoples, especially the Scandinavians and the Anglo-Saxons.
  • noun. A Finnish poem, or a division of one, especially a division of the Kalevala.
  • noun. Any verse or song, especially one with mystical or mysterious overtones; an incantation.
  • noun. A roun.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. any character from an ancient Germanic alphabet used in Scandinavia from the 3rd century to the Middle Ages
  • Word Usage
    "If the rune were a word, it would have been that one, but there was more meaning to it than any word she could imagine."
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    thorn  
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    Bethune  Boone  Calhoun  June  Karun  
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