runic

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

runic
    adj 1: relating to or consisting of runes; "runic inscription"

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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 Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)

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 Systeme' (French idiom, "Hugely Bad System").

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

runic

   <jargon> 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)

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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

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