a. Obs. [ad. L. ēlectrīnus, or Gr. ἠλέκτρινος: see ELECTRUM and -INE.]
1. Resembling what exists in amber, electric.
a. 1687. H. More, in Div. Dial. (1713), 560. They supposed it to contain an Electrine Principle in it.
2. Made of the metal ELECTRUM.
1677. Plot, Oxfordsh., 311. It was no matter in a Legacy of Electrine vessels, how much Silver or Electrum was in them.