crine
verb
ˈkrīn
-ed/-ing/-s
intransitive verb
Scottish : shrink, shrivel
transitive verb
Scottish : to cause to dry up, shrink, or shrivel
Word History
Etymology
Scottish Gaelic crīon to wither; akin to Old Irish crīn withered, Latin caries decay
First Known Use
circa 1513, in the meaning defined at transitive sense
- receptors
- recepts
- receptual
- receptually
- recercelée
- recertification
- recertifications
- recertified
- recertifies
- recertify
- recertifying
- recess
- recess bed
- recess engraving
- recess-print
- recessed
- recessed arch
- recesser
- recesses
- recessing
- recession
- recessional
- recessional hymn
- recessional moraine
- recessionals