rare. [a. It. crine or ad. L. crīn-is hair: cf. F. crin hair, horse-hair.]
1. Hair, head of hair. Also attrib.
1614. Sylvester, Du Bartas, Bethulia’s Rescue, I. 160. Priests, whose sacred Crine Felt never Razor.
1768. Bristol Jrnl., Oct. Hose of Goatskyn, Crinepart outwards.
1865. Athenæum, No. 1969. 119/3. Both crines look like ill-made wigs.
2. Hawking. = CRINET 2.
1883. Salvin & Brodrick, Falconry Brit. Isles, Gloss. 150.
