E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
Og’hams.
The alphabet in use among the ancient Irish and some other Celtic nations prior to the ninth century.
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“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.
