runecasting noun2 •The act of scattering stones, tablets, etc., each marked with a rune on one side, for the purposes of foretelling the future, determining a course of action, etc. •An instance of this; a runecast.Linguistic evidence is of two kinds: words for the tools of runecasting and terms that originally must have been characterizations of the results of runecastings. — 1989 formsrunecastings