Runic

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Runic \Ru"nic\, a.
     Of or pertaining to a rune, to runes, or to the Norsemen; as,
     runic verses; runic letters; runic names; runic rhyme.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     {Runic staff}. See {Clog almanac}, under {Clog}.


  
     {Runic wand}, a willow wand bearing runes, formerly thought
        to have been used by the heathen tribes of Northern Europe
        in magical ceremonies.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  runic
       adj : relating to or consisting of runes; "runic inscription"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  29 Moby Thesaurus words for "runic":
     Alcaic, Anacreontic, Castalian, Homeric, Hudibrastic, Pierian,
     Pindaric, Theocritean, bardic, bucolic, didactic, dithyrambic,
     dramatic, eclogic, elegiac, epic, heroic, idyllic, mock-heroic,
     narrative, pastoral, poetic, poetico-mystical,
     poetico-mythological, poetico-philosophic, poetlike, rhapsodic,
     sapphic, skaldic
  
  

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  runic adj. Syn. {obscure}. VMS fans sometimes refer to Unix as `Runix';
     Unix fans return the compliment by expanding VMS to `Very Messy Syntax'
     or `Vachement Mauvais Syste`me' (French idiom, "Hugely Bad System").
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  runic
       
           Obscure, consisting of {runes}.
       
          {VMS} fans sometimes refer to {Unix} as "RUnix".  Unix fans
          return the compliment by expanding VMS to "Very Messy Syntax"
          or "Vachement Mauvais Systeme" (French; literally "Cowlike Bad
          System", idiomatically "Bitchy Bad System").
       
          (1996-09-17)