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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Christ·cross-row The alphabet; -- formerly so called, either from the cross usually set before it, or from a superstitious custom, sometimes practiced, of writing it in the form of a cross, by way of a charm.
    From infant conning of the Christcross-row.   --Wordsworth.