rune
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rune englanniksi
A letter, or character, used in the written language of various ancient Germanic peoples, especially the Scandinavians and the Anglo-Saxons.
(quote-book)|location=London|publisher=Longmans, Green and Co.|title=The Old English Herbals|page=14|passage=Yet they made for man those mystic swords of superhuman workmanship engraved with magic runes and dipped when red hot in blood or in a broth of poisonous herbs and twigs.
(quote-book)
Any visually similar script, such as runes (the Hungarian script) or runes (the Turkic script).
A Finnic or Scandinavian epic poem, or a division of one, especially a division of the Kalevala.
(quote-book)|title=(w)|publisher=G.P. Puttnam's Sons|location=New York|page=30|chapter=III|volume=|passage=And the sword that had visited Earth from so far away smote like the falling of thunderbolts ... and the runes in Alveric’s far-travelled sword exulted, and roared at the elf-knight; until in the dark of the wood, amongst branches severed from disenchanted trees, with a blow like that of a thunderbolt riving an oak-tree, Alveric slew him.
A verse or song, especially one with mystical or mysterious overtones; a spell or an incantation.
1895, Louis Wain, "Owls" (in ''Illustrated London News'' summer number 1895, page 28)
- Where the daylight peeps thro' like the glint of the Moon, / And the branches are rustling a murmurous rune, / The Owls sit in council like prophets of Fate, / Discussing grave questions of Kingdom and State.
{{quote-book|en|year=1891|author=Mary Noailles Murfree|title=In the "Stranger People's" Country|location=Nebraska|year_published=2005|page=15
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to conjure
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