Also futhark, -ork. [Named from the first six letters, f, u, þ, ǫ or a, r, k.] The Runic alphabet.
1851. D. Wilson, Preh. Ann. (1863), II. IV. iv. 285. The name futhork is applied to all systems of phonetic signs of the Teutonic Stock, for the same reason as those of classical derivation are called alphabet.
1865. Lubbock, Preh. Times, App. (1878), 618. We possess no less than 61 Runic Futhorcs.
1868. G. Stephens, Runic Mon., I. p. vii. Shown by a couple of the later futhorcs.
