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rune book

rune book noun: a book written in runic script, especially one containing spells or magic formulae.

Noun

rune book (plural rune books)

  1. A book written in runic script, especially one containing spells or magic formulae.
    • And it was Thora, the little Dwarf's wife,
      The five rune-books she took out;
      So she loosed him fully out of the runes,
      Her daughter had bound him about.1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 167

Forms of rune book

pluralrune books

Questions about rune book

What does rune book mean?
Rune book means a book written in runic script, especially one containing spells or magic formulae.
What part of speech is rune book?
Rune book is a noun.
What is the plural of rune book?
The plural of rune book is rune books.

Words near rune book in the dictionary

  1. Runds
  2. Rundu
  3. rune
  4. rune bag
  5. rune bags
  6. rune book
  7. rune books
  8. rune cloth
  9. rune cloths
  10. rune poem
  11. rune poems

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