\Chris"om\, n. [See {Chrism}.]
1. A white cloth, anointed with chrism, or a white mantle
   thrown over a child when baptized or christened. [Obs.]
2. 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.