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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Runic \Ru"nic\, adjective Of or pertaining to a rune, to runes, or to the Norsemen; as, runic verses; runic letters; runic names; runic rhyme.
{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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
runic
adjective: relating to or consisting of runes; "runic inscription"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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
From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:
runic adjective 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 Syste'me' (French idiom, "Hugely Bad System").
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
runic 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)
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