a. Obs. rare. [ad. L. textrīn-us, f. textor weaver.] Of or pertaining to weaving.
1713. Derham, Phys.-Theol., IV. xiii. 234. How so small a Creature that emits no Web, nor hath any textrine Art, can be able to convolve the stubborn leaf, and then bind it … with the Thread or Web it weaves from its own Body. Ibid., VIII. vi. (1752), 388. The curious structure of all parts ministring to this textrine power.
