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Ogʹhams

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The alphabet in use among the ancient Irish and some other Celtic nations prior to the ninth century.

“The oghams seem to have been merely treerunes. The Irish regarded the oghams as a forest, the individual characters being trees (feada), while each cross-stroke is called a twig (fleasg).—Isaac Taylor: The Alphabet, vol. ii. chap. viii. p. 226.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Œil
Œil de Bœuf (L)
Off (Saxon, of; Latin, ab, from, away)
Off-hand
Off his Head
Off the Hooks
Off with his Head! So much for Buckingham!
Offa’s Dyke
Og
Og
Oghams
Oghris
Ogier the Dane
Ogleby (Lord)
Ogres
OGroat
Ogygian Deluge
Oi Polloi
Oignement de Bretaigne (French)
Oignons dEgypte
Oil