Ogʹhams
. 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.