CROSSING THE HAND

Domain	Definition
Literature	Crossing the Hand Fortune-tellers of the gipsy race always bid their dupe to "cross their hand with a bit of silver." This, they say, is for luck. Of course, the sign of the cross warded off witches and all other evil spirits, and, as fortune-telling belongs to the black arts, the palm is signed with a cross to keep off the wiles of the devil. "You need fear no evil, though I am a fortune-teller, if by the sign of the cross you exorcise the evil spirit." Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Anagrams: CROSSING THE HAND

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-g-h-h-i-n-n-o-r-s-s-t"
	-3 letters: shortchanged, shortchanges.
	-4 letters: achondrites, ancestoring, constrained, constringed, constringes, designators, disenchants, grindstones, nightshades, shortchange, shortenings, stanchioned.
	-5 letters: achondrite, adroitness, anchorites, androgenic, antechoirs, astonished, cannisters, chagrinned, chastening, chondrites, coarsening, constrains, constringe, containers, crenations, daringness, decorating, descanting, designator, dethroning, discharges, disenchant, dissonance, gannisters, grindstone, hardenings, harnessing, harshening, headstrong, hindrances, hoarsening, ignorances, integrands, intradoses, nightdress, nightshade, ordinances.
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