<p><strong>Noun:</strong></p><ul><li>any of the characters of certain ancient alphabets, as of a script used for writing the Germanic languages, especially of Scandinavia and Britain, from c200 to c1200</li><li>a script used for inscriptions in a Turkic language of the 6th to 8th centuries from the area near the Orkhon River in Mongolia</li><li>something written or inscribed in such characters</li><li>an aphorism, poem, or saying with mystical meaning or for use in casting a spell</li></ul>