Obs. Also 7 cranie. = CRANIUM.
1525. trans. Jerome of Brunswick’s Surg., xxx. With brekyng of Craney.
1643. Sir T. Browne, Relig. Med., 88. The Crany of a beast. Ibid. (1646), Pseud. Ep., III. xiii. 137. It was rather the forehead bone petrified, then a stone within the crany.
1730[?]. Swift, Dan Jackson’s Reply, Wks. 1755, IV. I. 258. Good spelling-master, your crany has lead on’t.
