单词 | crine |
释义 | † crinen. Obsolete. 1. Hair, head of hair. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > hair > hair of head > [noun] lockeOE faxc900 hairc1000 hairc1000 headOE topc1275 toppingc1400 peruke1548 fleece1577 crine1581 head of hair1587 poll1603 a fell of haira1616 thatcha1634 maidenhair1648 chevelure1652 wool1697 toupet1834 nob-thatch1846 barnet1857 toss1946 1581 W. Averell Life & Death Charles & Iulia sig. Bvi Her curled crine dyd farre surpasse, the glorious glistering golde. a1618 J. Sylvester tr. Bethulians Rescue in tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Diuine Weekes & Wks. (1621) 956 Priests, whose sacred Crine Felt neuer Razor. a1770 T. Chatterton Compl. Wks. (1971) I. 210 Blacke hys cryne as the wyntere nyghte. 1861 R. W. Dixon Christ's Company & Other Poems 58 I took the grasses of the field, The flax was bolled upon my crine. 1865 Athen. No. 1969. 119/3 Both crines look like ill-made wigs. 2. Falconry. = crinet n. 1. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Falconiformes (falcons, etc.) > family Accipitridae (hawks, etc.) > [noun] > hawk > parts of > feathers maila1475 barb1486 brails1486 crinet1486 crinel1704 mail-feather1773 crine1855 1855 F. H. Salvin & W. Brodrick Falconry in Brit. Isles Gloss. 134 Crines, the small hair-like feathers about the cere. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2021). crinev. Chiefly Scottish. 1. transitive. Scottish and English regional (northern). To reduce in size or bulk, make smaller; to cause to shrink or shrivel, esp. with heat. Now rare.In quot. a15221 = clip v.2 4a. ΚΠ a1513 [implied in: W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 206 Reistit and crynit as hangit man on hill. (at crined adj.1)]. a1522 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) viii. Prol. l. 97 Sum crachour crynys the cunȝe, and kepys corn stakkis. a1522 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) viii. Prol. l. 63 The hyne crynys [1553 crynis] the corn, The broustar the beir schorn. 1568 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xlvi. 36 Na coukcald karle nor carllingis pet, That dois thair corne and caitell cryne. 1843 T. Mather in Whistle-Binkie 5th Ser. 45 The drouth it had krin'd up and slacken'd the screw. 1868 J. Hamilton Poems & Ballads 221 Famine to the cottars cam', An' crined them doun to skin an' bane. 1878 W. Dickinson Gloss. Words & Phrases Cumberland (ed. 2) Crine, to overdo in frying or roasting. 2. intransitive. To shrink, shrivel, esp. with age or heat; to dry up. Also with in. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > dryness > become dry [verb (intransitive)] > dry up adroweOE dry?c1325 to dry up1535 crine?1553 exsiccate1686 ?1553 (c1501) G. Douglas Palice of Honour (London) iii. l. 2132 in Shorter Poems (1967) 130 All wycht, but sycht, of thy gret mycht, ay crinis [1579 Edinb. crynis]. 1568 A. Ramsay Interlud Droichis in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1928) II. 319 I haif bene formest Evir in feild And now sa lang I haif borne scheild That I am crynit in for eild. a1687 R. McWard Επαγωνισμοι (1723) 146 Even Professors sat-up, shirped-away, and cryned into a Shadow. 1743 Sel. Trans. Soc. Improvers Knowl. Agric. Scotl. 81 Being very watery and soft, the after-Growth crines and dries in (when made into Hay) to a small Bulk. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian iii, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. IV. 58 And mine bairns hae been crining too, mon. 1849 J. W. Carlyle Lett. II. 62 He had grown old like a golden pippin, merely crined, with the bloom upon him. 1912 N. Munro Ayrshire Idylls 101 Ye wouldna ken her..crined awa to a shadow! 1936 J. G. Horne Flooer o' Ling 63 May, June, July, The simmer's by An' days are crinin in. 1954 ‘R. Garioch’ in Coll. Poems (2004) ii. 45 Whaur soil has crined to desert. 1991 W. Wolfe in T. Hubbard New Makars 65 Glower o sun an snell wund drocht thaim sair an Bluid an watter crine on peths wi nae devaul. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > see alsoalso refers to : -crinecomb. form < n.1581v.?a1513 see also |
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