- a variation of ogham.
ogam
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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This he accomplished by means of four wands of yew inscribed with ogam characters.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" by Various
They give the withe into the hands of Fergus Mac Roich; he read the ogam that was on it.
From The Cattle-Raid of Cualnge (Tain Bo Cualnge) : An Old Irish Prose-Epic by L. Winifred Faraday
Cuchulainn cut an oak before them there, and wrote an ogam in its side.
From The Cattle-Raid of Cualnge (Tain Bo Cualnge) : An Old Irish Prose-Epic by L. Winifred Faraday
The ogam inscription would also be of Druidic composition, and as no sacrifice was complete without the intervention of Druids, they must also have assisted at the lavish sacrifices which occurred at Celtic funerals.
From The Religion of the Ancient Celts by J. A. MacCulloch
And yon ogam on its side, Find, ye druids, in due form, Who has set it upright there?
From The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge by Joseph Dunn
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