rune /ɹuːn/noun 6verb 1forms 3 noun6 •A letter, or character, used in the written language of various ancient Germanic peoples, especially the Scandinavians and the Anglo-Saxons.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. — 1922 •A letter from any visually similar script, such as Hungarian runes (the Old Hungarian script) or Turkic runes (the Old Turkic script). •A letter or mark used as a mystical or magic symbol."Finding you somewhere to live isn't going to be easy," he said. "We must cast the runes," said Catweazle. "They will tell us." — 1971 •A Finnic or Scandinavian epic poem, or a division of one, especially a division of the Kalevala. •A verse or song, especially one with mystical or mysterious overtones; a spell or an incantation.the fiddle sang and sang as ceaselessly as the chanting cicada without, and the frogs intoning their sylvan runes by the waterside. — 1891 •A Unicode code point.Go language defines the type rune as an alias for the type int32 to represent a Unicode code point. A string in Go is a sequence of runes. — 2016 verb1 •(literary, old-fashioned) To compose or perform poetry or songs. formsruned · runing · runes
