crini-comb. form

1866 Piqua (Ohio) Democrat 22 Aug. 4/6 (advt.) Preparations for hair..Garvin's Crinicultural for the preservation of hair.

1873 Wisconsin State Reg. 11 Oct. A Galesburg barber advertises himself as a ‘Professor of crinicultural abscission and craniological tripsis’.

1936 Lethbridge (Alberta) Herald 22 Aug. 7/5 Crinicultural abscission..craniological tripsis..it's just haircuts and shaving.

1706 Female Grievances Debated 82 She could not stoop but she must fright the standers By with the terrible Appearance of her Criniferous Bugbear.

1789 W. Woty Poet. Amusem. 42 The swagg'ring fop, who weaves, Obedient to his Will the curl, and trims The chin criniferous.

1837 New Monthly Mag. 49 550 Those criniferous appendages to the head worn by the bucks of that period.

1868 Debow's Rev. July 605 Above the furrowed forehead of sixty, nowadays, rises a criniferous scalp, whose carefully manipulated locks would do honor to a youth of twenty.

1977 Charleston (W. Virginia) Gaz. 29 Nov. 16/1 During the 60s when multitudes of acersecomic folk were running about..we had to make do in describing them with mundane adjectives like hairy or shaggy or hirsute..William F. Buckley Jr...described them as criniferous and piliferous and perhaps even villous.

1656 T. Blount Glossographia Crinigerous, that hath or weareth hair.

1794 W. Beaumont tr. J.-J. Barthélemy Trav. Anacharsis (ed. 2) II. xxv. 467 In general, the flesh of wild animals is less succulent than that of domestic ones;..and that of crinigerous than that of smooth animals: such is the doctrine of Hippocrates.

1819 H. Busk Vestriad iii. 720 Her front crinigerous, each hair a snake.

1863 Times 03 Nov. 12/2 There are dowagers, with headdresses which tower up like crinigerous Babels.

1912 Chillicothe (Missouri) Constit. 15 Nov. 2/1 Doubtless some other crinigerous eccentric will sentimentally weave his whiskers into a necktie.

1798 Anti-Jacobin 19 Feb. 119/2 Bear's grease or fat..supposed to have a criniparous [printed crinipdrous], or hair-producing quality.

1837 C. A. Wheelwright tr. Aristophanes Comedies II. 151 But worms crinivorous have eat my crests [Gk. ἀλλ' ἦ τριχόβρωτες τοὺς λόϕους μου κατέϕαγον; Fr. Comme les mites crinivores ont rongé mon aigrette!].

1962 H. Miller Stand Still like Hummingbird 148 Traveling onward, through the Malay states, we find other anomalies, such as the spear and canoe money of the crinivorous Nagas.