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▪ I. crine, n. rare.|kraɪn|
[a. It. crine or ad. L. crīn-is hair: cf. F. crin hair, horse-hair.]
1. Hair, head of hair. Also attrib.
1614Sylvester Du Bartas, Bethulia's Rescue i. 160 Priests, whose sacred Crine Felt never Razor. 1768Bristol Jrnl. Oct., Hose of Goatskyn, Crinepart outwards. 1865Athen. No. 1969. 119/3 Both crines look like ill-made wigs.
2. Hawking. = crinet 2.
1883Salvin & Brodrick Falconry Brit. Isles Gloss. 150.
▪ II. crine, v. Sc.|kraɪn|
[app. a. Gael. crìon to wither, f. crìon dry, withered.]
1. intr. To shrink, shrivel, contract from dryness.
1501Douglas Pal. Hon. iii. 845 All wycht but sycht of thy gret mycht ay crinis. 1724Ramsay Evergreen, Interl. Droichs xiii, I am crynit in for eild. 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. xxxix, ‘And mine bairns hae been crining too, mon.’ 1849Mrs. Carlyle Lett. II. 62 He had grown old like a golden pippin, merely crined, with the bloom upon him. Mod. Sc. The meat (in stewing) has crined into very little.
b. trans.
1847Whistlebinkie (Sc. Songs) (1840) II. 165 The drouth it had krined up and slackened the screw. 1878Dickinson Cumbrld. Gloss., Crine, to overdo in frying or roasting.
†2. To sweat or clip (coin). Obs. rare—1.
1513Douglas æneis viii. Prol. 97 Sum trachour crynis the cunȝe, and kepis corn stakis.
Hence crined ppl. a., shrunken, shrivelled.
1861Ramsay Remin. 2nd Ser. 121 A very little ‘crined’ old man. |