Definition of "futhorc" [fu•thorc]

• The Runic alphabet as used to write Old English. (noun)

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• "The runes taken collectively are properly called the futhorc, the word being made up of the names of the first of the runes."
• "How many know what the futhark is, and how it differs from the futhorc?"
• "On the next page, in the course of a brief mention of futhorc runes, he says "with th—known as the thorn—being elided into a single symbol"; again I was puzzled—it's the symbol that's known as thorn, not whatever he means by the "th being elided.""