Sc. [app. a Gael. crìon to wither, f. crìon dry, withered.]
1. intr. To shrink, shrivel, contract from dryness.
1501. Douglas, Pal. Hon., III. 845. All wycht but sycht of thy gret mycht ay crinis.
1724. Ramsay, Evergreen, Interl. Droichs, xiii. I am crynit in for eild.
1818. Scott, Hrt. Midl., xxxix. ‘And mine bairns hae been crining too, mon.’
1849. Mrs. Carlyle, Lett., II. 72. He had grown old like a golden pippin, merely crined, with the bloom upon him.
Mod. Sc. The meat (in stewing) has crined into very little.
b. trans.
1847. Whistlebinkie (Sc. Songs) (1840), II. 165. The drouth it had krined up and slackened the screw.
1878. Dickinson, Cumbrld. Gloss., Crine, to overdo in frying or roasting.
† 2. To sweat or clip (coin). Obs. rare–1.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, VIII. Prol. 97. Sum trachour crynis the cunȝe, and kepis corn stakis.
Hence Crined ppl. a., shrunken, shrivelled.
1861. E. B. Ramsay, Remin., 2nd Ser. 121. A very little ‘crined’ old man.
