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   Chrisom , n. [See Chrism.]
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   A white cloth, anointed with chrism, or a white mantle thrown over a child when baptized or christened. [Obs.]
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   A child which died within a month after its baptism; -- so called from the chrisom cloth which was used as a shroud for it. [Obs.]
   Blount.
   
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