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christ·cross (kris′krôs′)

noun

  1. Obsolete the figure of a cross (✠) placed before the alphabet in hornbooks
  2. Archaic the mark of the cross () used as a signature by a person who cannot write

Etymology: < ME Crist cros, Christ's cross

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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