rare. [f. L. type *crīnōsitās, f. *crīnōsus hairy, f. crīnis hair.] Hairiness.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Crinosity, hairiness.
1730–6. in Bailey (folio).
1755. in Johnson.
1825. New Monthly Mag., XIII. 424. None of the ancients, as I see, Laid claim to our crinosity.
1832. L. Hunt, Sir R. Esher (1850), 95. The royal crinosity was naturally a deep black.
So Crinose a., having much or long hair.
1730–6. in Bailey (folio); whence in Johnson and mod. Dicts.
