† cross-rown.
Obsolete.
The alphabet; = Christ-cross-row n.
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a1529 J. Skelton Against Venemous Tongues In your crosse rowe nor Christ crosse you spede, Your Pater Noster, your Ave, nor your Crede.
1531 W. Tyndale Expos. Fyrste Epist. St. Jhon 2 A man can by no manes reade, excepte he be taught the letters of the crosserowe.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III i. i. 55 And from the crosse-rowe pluckes the letter G. View more context for this quotation
1635 J. Swan Speculum Mundi i. §3. 23 By their naturall position in the alphabet or crosse-row.
1681 W. Robertson Phraseologia generalis (1693) 1085 The cross-row, alphabetum.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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