See Christcross-row on Wiktionary
{ "etymology_text": "Either from the cross usually set before it, or from a superstitious custom of writing it in the form of a cross, by way of a charm. See crossrow.", "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "!", "head": "Christcross-row" }, "expansion": "Christcross-row (plural not attested)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ { "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "English nouns with unattested plurals", "parents": [ "Nouns with unattested plurals", "Nouns", "Lemmas" ], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with 1 entry", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with entries", "parents": [], "source": "w" } ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1814, William Wordsworth, The Excursion:", "text": "From infant conning of the Christ-cross-row", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1897, Stanley John Weyman, chapter I, in Shrewsbury:", "text": "For though I never attained to the outward flower of scholarship by proceeding to the learned degree of arts at either of the Universities, I gained the root and kernel of the matter at Bishop's Stortford, being able at the age of fourteen to write a fine hand, and read Eutropius, and Cæsar, and teach the horn-book and Christ-Cross to younger boys.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "The alphabet." ], "id": "en-Christcross-row-en-noun-~bAfhhSy", "links": [ [ "alphabet", "alphabet" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(obsolete) The alphabet." ], "synonyms": [ { "word": "Christ-cross-row" } ], "tags": [ "no-plural", "obsolete" ] } ], "word": "Christcross-row" }
{ "etymology_text": "Either from the cross usually set before it, or from a superstitious custom of writing it in the form of a cross, by way of a charm. See crossrow.", "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "!", "head": "Christcross-row" }, "expansion": "Christcross-row (plural not attested)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English countable nouns", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English multiword terms", "English nouns", "English nouns with unattested plurals", "English terms with obsolete senses", "English terms with quotations", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1814, William Wordsworth, The Excursion:", "text": "From infant conning of the Christ-cross-row", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1897, Stanley John Weyman, chapter I, in Shrewsbury:", "text": "For though I never attained to the outward flower of scholarship by proceeding to the learned degree of arts at either of the Universities, I gained the root and kernel of the matter at Bishop's Stortford, being able at the age of fourteen to write a fine hand, and read Eutropius, and Cæsar, and teach the horn-book and Christ-Cross to younger boys.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "The alphabet." ], "links": [ [ "alphabet", "alphabet" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(obsolete) The alphabet." ], "tags": [ "no-plural", "obsolete" ] } ], "synonyms": [ { "word": "Christ-cross-row" } ], "word": "Christcross-row" }
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