1. Noun
A white cloth, anointed with chrism, or a white mantle thrown over a child when baptized or christened.
2. Noun
A child which died within a month after its baptism; -- so called from the chrisom cloth which was used as a shroud for it.
3. Noun
a consecrated ointment consisting of a mixture of oil and balsam
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