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Cross Bun

Definition: Cross Bun

Cross Bun

Noun

1. Moderately sweet raised roll containing spices and raisins and citron and decorated with a cross-shaped sugar glaze.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

Synonym: Cross Bun

Synonym: hot cross bun (n). (additional references)

Expression: Cross Bun

Expression using "cross bun": hot cross bun. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Cross Bun

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
hot cross bun recipe	5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Anagrams: Cross Bun

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-c-n-o-r-s-s-u"
	-1 letter: suborns, uncross.
	-2 letters: bosuns, bourns, broncs, buncos, cornus, scorns, scours, scrubs, suborn.
	-3 letters: bonus, bosun, bourn, bronc, bunco, burns, conus, corns, cornu, cross, curbs, curns, cusso, scorn, scour, scrub, snobs, snubs, sorbs, sorns, sorus, sours, uncos.
	-4 letters: born, boss, bros, buns, burn, burs, buss, cobs, cons, corn, cors, coss, crus, cubs, curb, curn, curs.
	Words containing the letters "b-c-n-o-r-s-s-u"
	+2 letters: curbstones, obscurants.
	+3 letters: obscureness, uncrossable.
	+4 letters: cumbrousness, obscurantism, obscurantist, obscurations, obstructions, scabrousness, subcontracts, subscription, subtractions.
	+5 letters: broncobusters, counterblasts, obscurantisms, obscurantists, obscurenesses, ribonucleases, subcontraries, subscriptions.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Alternative Orthography: Cross Bun

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 72 6F 73 73 42 75 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01110010 01101111 01110011 01110011 00100000 01000010 01110101 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#114 &#111 &#115 &#115 &#32 &#66 &#117 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0072 006F 0073 0073 0042 0075 006E

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

37848185852368780

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Expressions
4. Expressions: Internet

5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography

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