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c1000 Ælfric Gram. (Z.) 6 x ana ongynð of þam stæfe i æfter uðwitena tæcinge.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 38 Note that x shall never be sounded in frenche lyke as he is in latyn, or as we wolde do in our tonge, in no wyse, but lyke an z.

c1620 A. Hume Of Orthogr. Britan Tongue (1870) i. iv. §7 The top of the tongue stryking on the inward teeth formes d, l, n, r, s, t, and z... The midle tongue stryking on the rouf of the mouth formes the rest, c, g, k, j, q, and x.

a1637 B. Jonson Eng. Gram. i. iv, in Wks. (1640) III X, Is rather an abbreviation, or way of short writing with us, then a Letter..It begins no word with us, that I know, but ends many.

1735 C. Middleton Diss. Origin Printing Eng. 7 I take the Date in question to have been falsified originally by the Printer,..and an x to have been dropt..in the Age of its Impression.

a1845 R. H. Barham Lord of Thoulouse in Ingoldsby Legends (1847) 3rd Ser. 202 His cap, and his queer cloak all X's and Izzards.

a1849 E. A. Poe X-ing a Paragrab in Wks. (1856) IV. 264 When the exigency does occur, it almost always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter deficient.

1864 C. Boutell Heraldry Hist. & Pop. (ed. 3) xxi. 360 Az., on a cross arg. the letter X sa.

1878 W. J. Cripps Old Eng. Plate 110 Much of the old..plate of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries that is still to be found in the counties of Devon and Cornwall bears the old Exeter mark, which was a large Roman capital letter X crowned.

1945 J. C. Tarr Printing To-day 177 x-height, the height of lower-case letters (excluding descenders and ascenders), i.e. the height of a lower-case x.

1959 L. M. Harrod Librarians' Gloss. (ed. 2) , 99 Descender,..that part which extends below the ‘X’ height.

1964 P. A. D. MacCarthy in D. Abercrombie et al. Daniel Jones 160 Any attempt to preserve traditional usage by having only x-height letters for vowels.

1978 J. Lewis Typogr. ii. 79 Typefaces with a large x-height are more suitable for an age accustomed to reading sans serif signs... VIP Palatino is another large x-height typeface.

c1000 Ælfric Gram. (Z.) 6 x ana ongynð of þam stæfe i æfter uðwitena tæcinge.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 38 Note that x shall never be sounded in frenche lyke as he is in latyn, or as we wolde do in our tonge, in no wyse, but lyke an z.

c1620 A. Hume Of Orthogr. Britan Tongue (1870) i. iv. §7 The top of the tongue stryking on the inward teeth formes d, l, n, r, s, t, and z... The midle tongue stryking on the rouf of the mouth formes the rest, c, g, k, j, q, and x.

a1637 B. Jonson Eng. Gram. i. iv, in Wks. (1640) III X, Is rather an abbreviation, or way of short writing with us, then a Letter..It begins no word with us, that I know, but ends many.

1735 C. Middleton Diss. Origin Printing Eng. 7 I take the Date in question to have been falsified originally by the Printer,..and an x to have been dropt..in the Age of its Impression.

a1845 R. H. Barham Lord of Thoulouse in Ingoldsby Legends (1847) 3rd Ser. 202 His cap, and his queer cloak all X's and Izzards.

a1849 E. A. Poe X-ing a Paragrab in Wks. (1856) IV. 264 When the exigency does occur, it almost always happens that x is adopted as a substitute for the letter deficient.

1864 C. Boutell Heraldry Hist. & Pop. (ed. 3) xxi. 360 Az., on a cross arg. the letter X sa.

1878 W. J. Cripps Old Eng. Plate 110 Much of the old..plate of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries that is still to be found in the counties of Devon and Cornwall bears the old Exeter mark, which was a large Roman capital letter X crowned.

1945 J. C. Tarr Printing To-day 177 x-height, the height of lower-case letters (excluding descenders and ascenders), i.e. the height of a lower-case x.

1959 L. M. Harrod Librarians' Gloss. (ed. 2) , 99 Descender,..that part which extends below the ‘X’ height.

1964 P. A. D. MacCarthy in D. Abercrombie et al. Daniel Jones 160 Any attempt to preserve traditional usage by having only x-height letters for vowels.

1978 J. Lewis Typogr. ii. 79 Typefaces with a large x-height are more suitable for an age accustomed to reading sans serif signs... VIP Palatino is another large x-height typeface.