crinal (kri'nal) 
crinal 
[< L. crinalis, < crinis, hair : 
to hair. 
1352 
crinoline 
ft, r * Im... 
crinated <kri4-ted)%" 
Having hair; hairy. 
Crinatory (krin'a-to-n) 
crinch (krmch), r. A dialectal form ot 
crincumt, crincomet, " [Old slang.] 
real infection. [Vulgar.] 
+ -*.] hair: 
crinicultural (kriu-i-kul'tur-al), . [<L.crm, crinkleroot (kring'kl-rot), . The pepperroot, 
hair (sue rriiif), + cuUura,"ovi\ture, + -al.] Be- licntaria di/iln/lla. 
lating to the growth of hair. [Kare.] crinkly (kring'kh)^ o. 
criniere (krin-iar'), . [OF., < erin, < L. n-inin, 
f , [< crinkle + -yl.] Full 
of crinkles; wrinkly; crimpy; like a crinkle. 
Same as 
nan : oco <;/ me. j In armor, that part of the bards crinkum-crankum ( 
of a horse which covered the back of the neck, it [A humorous Latin-seeming word, made trom 
was generally formed of overlapping plates, like the tas- crinkle or prank.] A winding or crooked line or 
Get the crincomes, go. 
Shirley ami Chapman, The Ball, iv. 
Jealousy is hut a kind 
Of clap and crincuiit of the mind. 
S. Butler, Hudibras, III. i. 704. 
crinet (krin), w. [< F. erin = Pr. Sp. erin = 
Pg. crina = It. crine, < L. crinis, hair.] Hair. 
[Rare.] 
Priests, whose sacred crine 
Felt never razor. Sylvester, it. of Du Jlartas. 
crined (krind), a. [< crine + -ed?; equiv. to 
crinite 1 , q. v.] In Her., wearing hair, as the 
head of a man or woman, or wearing a mane, as 
the head of a horse, unicorn, etc. These additions 
are often borne of a different tincture from the head, 
which is then said to be crinrd of such a tincture. 
crinelt (kri'nel), . [< OF. *crinel, dim. of erin, 
< L. crinis, hair: see crine.] Same as crinet, 1. 
Booth. 
crinet (kri'net), n. [< OF. "crinet, dim. of erin, 
< L. crinis, hair: see crine, and cf. crinel.~] If. 
the fifteenth cen- 
tury. Also crinet. See cut under bard. 
Vene- c r i n i ger (krin'i-jer), n. [NL., < L. criniger, 
hairy: see crinigcrous.] 1. A genus of turdoid 
or dentirostral oscine passerine birds (so called crino 
from the hair-like filaments with which some C rine.] 
course; a zigzag. 
Ay, here's none of your straight lines here but all taste 
zigzag crinkum-crankum in and out. 
Caiman and Oarrick, The Clandestine Marriage, ii. 2. 
'no), n. [NL., < L. crinis, hair: see 
_, _. PI. crmoes(kri-n6'nez). Acuticular 
disease supposed to arise from the insinuation 
of a hair-worm under the skin of infants. 2. 
[cap.] A genus of Entozoa, found chiefly in 
horses and dogs. 
crinoid (kii'noid), . and . [< Crinoidea.'] I. 
a. Of or pertaining to the Crinoidea ; contain- 
ingor consisting of crinoids; encrinital. 
II. n. One of the Crinoidea; an encrinite; 
a stone-lily, sea-lily, lily-star, feather-star, or 
hair-star. 
The greater number of crinoids belong to the oldest pe- 
riods of the history of the earth (the Cambrian, Silurian, 
Devonian and Carboniferous formations). Existing forms 
live mostly at considerable depths. 
Clang, Zoology (trans.), I. 289. 
crinoidal (kri-noi'dal), a. [As crinoid + -al.] 
Same as crinoid. 
Crinoidea (kri-noi'de-a), n.pl. [NL., <Gr. npivo- 
of the feathers end), containing a large number <%, like a lily, < Kpivdv, a lily, + tiiiof, form.] 1. 
Criniger phaocephalits. 
A fine, hair-like feather ; one of the small, bris- of chiefly African and Asiatic species: some- A class of Echinodermata containing globular 
times referred to the family Pycnonotidte. It is 
also called Triclias and Trichophorus. 2. [I. c.] 
A book-name of the species of the genus Crini- 
ger: as, the yellow-bellied criniger, C. flariven- 
crang, "crane, pi. crungon,*cruncon, pp. crungen, 
*crnncen) (cf. swing, with the assibilated form 
tly black feathers on a hawk's head. Halliwell. 
Also crane, cranet, crinel. 2. Same as criniere. 
cringe (krinj), v. ; pret. and pp. cringed, ppr. 
cringing. [= E. dial. (North.) crinch, crouch; < 
ME. "crinchen, crenchen, crengen (?), twist or 
bend, < AS. cringan, sometimes crincan (pret. crinigerous (kri-nij'e-rus), a. [< L. criniger 
- (doubtful), having long hair, < crinis, hair (see 
crine), + gerere, bear.] Hairy; covered with 
swinge), fa'll (in battle), yield, succumb, orig. hair; crinated. [Bare.] 
prob. 'bend, bow' (cf. the orig. sense of equiv. criniparOUS (kri-nip'a-rus), a. [< L. crinis, 
succumb). The verb is but scantly recorded in hair (see crine), + parere, produce.] Producing 
early literature, but it appears to be the ult. hair ; causing hair to grow. [Bare.] 
Bears' grease or fat is also in great request, being sup- 
posed to liave a criniparous or hair-producing quality. 
Poetry of Antijacobin, p. 83, note. 
crinite 1 (kri'mt), a. [< L. crinitus, haired, pp. 
of crinire, provide with 
source of crinkle, cringle, as well as of crank in 
all its uses.] I. intrans. To bend; crouch; es- 
pecially, to bend or crouch with servility or 
from fear or cowardice ; fawn ; cower. 
Who more than thou 
Once fawn'd and crimjed, and servilely adored 
Heaven's awful Monarch? Milton, P. L., iv. 959. 
Those who trample on the helpless are disposed to cringe 
to the powerful. Macaulay, Lord Bacon. 
He cringes to every phantom of apprehension, and obeys 
the impulses of cowardice as though they were the laws 
of existence. Whipple, Ess. and Rev., II. 117. 
crine.] 
hair. 
= Svn. To stoop, truckle. 
II. trans. To contract ; distort. [Bare.] 
Whip him, fellows, 
Till, like a boy, you see him cringe his face, 
And whine aloud for mercy. 
Shalt., A. andC., iii. 11. 
cringe (krinj), . [< cringe, v.] A servile or 
fawning obeisance. 
My antic knees can turn upon the hinges 
Of compliment, and screw a thousand cringes. 
Quarles, Emblems, iv. 3. 
He must be under my usher, who must teach him the 
postures of his body, how to make legs and cringes. 
Shirley, Love Tricks, iii. 5. 
cringeling(krinj'ling),H. [<. cringe + -ling.] One 
who cringes ; a fawner ; a sycophant ; a shrink- 
ing coward. [Rare.] 
cringer ( krin 'j or), n. One who cringes; one 
characterized by servility or cowardice ; a syco- 
phant. 
cringingly (krin'jing-li), adv. In a cringing 
manner. 
cringle (kring'gl), n. [In naut. sense also writ- 
ten crengle, crenkle, crenels; of LG. or Scand. 
origin : MLG. kringel, kringele, a ring, circle, a 
cracknel, = G. kringel, a cracknel, dial, a circle, 
= Icel. kringla, a disk, circle, orb; dim. of the 
simple form, D. kring = MLG. krink, 
a ring, circle, = Icel. kringr, in pi. krin- 
i hair, < crinis, hair: see 
1. Having the appearance of a tuft of 
Comate, crinite, caudate stars. 
Fairfax, tr. of Tasso, xiv. 44. 
2. In bot. and entom., having long hairs, or hav- 
ing tufts of long, weak, and often bent hairs, on 
the surface. Also crinate. 
crinite 2 (kri'nit), . [< Gr. Kpivav, a lily, + -ite 2 . 
Cf, encrinite.] A fossil crinoid ; an encrinite 
or stone-lily. 
crinitory (krin'i-to-ri), a. [< crinite^ + -ory.] 
Pertaining to or consisting of hair. Also spelled 
crinatory. 
When in the morning he anxiously removed the cap, 
away came every vestige of its crinitory covering. 
T. Hook, Gilbert Gurney, II. iii. 
crinkle (kring'kl), v.; pret. and pp. crinkled, 
ppr. crinkling. [< ME. crenclen (rare), bend, 
turn, = D. krinkelen, turn, wind; freq. of *crink, 
repr. by cringe, and, with change of vowel, by 
crank (cf. crankle): see cringe, cringle, and 
crank 1 .] I. trans. To form or mark with short 
curves, waves, or wrinkles ; make with many 
flexures; mold into corrugations; corrugate. 
The flames through all the casements pushing forth, 
Like red-hot devils crinkled into snakes. 
Mrs. Bronming, Aurora Leigh, viii. 
II. intrans. 1. To turn or wind; bend; wrin- 
kle ; be marked by short waves or ripples ; curl ; 
be corrugated or crimped. 
The house is crinkled to and fro. 
Chaucer, Good Women, 1. 2012. 
All the rooms 
Were full of crinklinff silks. 
Mrs. Browning, Aurora Leigh, v. 
A breath of cheerfulness runs along the slender stream 
or cup-shaped echinoderms, having, normally, 
jointed arms furnished with pinnules, and 
stalked and fixed during some or all of their 
lives : so called from the resemblance of their 
rayed bodies, borne upon a jointed stem, to a 
lily or tulip. The body or calyx of the ventral surface 
is directed upward ; the stalk is attached to the aboral, 
dorsal, or inferior surface, which is provided with plates; 
and the ambulacral appendages have the form of tentacles 
situated in the ambulacral grooves of the calyx and of the 
segmented arms. The class is divided into three orders : 
the Blastoidea, which are without arms ; the Cyxtoidea, 
which are globular, and have arms; and the Crinoidea, 
which are cup-shaped, and provided with arms. All the 
representatives of the first two orders, and most of the 
third order, are extinct. The fossil forms are known as 
stone-lilies and encrinites. See stone-lily and encrinite. 
2. The typical order of the class Crinoidea, hav- 
ing the body cup-shaped or calyx-like, the dor- 
sal or aboral surface furnished with hard calca- 
reous plates, the ventral or oral aspect coria- 
ceous, and the body stalked and rooted, at least 
for some period if not continuously, and provid- 
I. The entire 
joints of stem ; c, c, c: 
calyx and brachia 
Rhizocrfnus lofotcmis. 
:mal : a, enlarged upper joint of stem ; *, larval 
' '; d d brachia. II. Summit of stem, bearing 
s before ; j, s, first radials ; r2, -2, second ra- 
llyx anu uratmu ; ti, .... .~..-.~ . _,-, . . . 
dials; -3, r3, third radials; /,/, pinnules. III. Oral surface of calyx, 
seen obliquely : v, lower part of visceral mass ; St. tentacular grooves; 
a, o, oral valves; t, oral tentacles; an, anus. 
ed with five or more radiated segmented arms 
bearing pinnules and disconnected from the vis- 
ceral cavity. All the ordinary encrinites, stone-lilies, 
lily -stars, etc., belong to this division, which abounded In 
early, especially Paleozoic, times, and is still represented 
by six living genera. These are Anledon (or Cumatula), 
Actinometra, Comaster, Pentacrinug, RauooritMU. and 
Holopu*. The order Crinoidea is by some divided into 
two suborders, Articulata and Tesselata, the latter all fos- 
sil; by others into the families Uncrinidef and Crmatvli- 
dee, the former containing the ordinary encrinites or stone- 
lilies, as well as some living sea-lilies, and the latter com- 
prising the feather-stars. Also called Brachialn. 
far, pulleys of a drag-net; cf. Icel. of his [Skelton's] verse, under which it seems to ripple and crinoidean (kri-noi'de-an), n. [< Criimidcti + 
ringr, adj., easy (orig. round, kring, ^"am' Mown'm? nVclear'w'es^rn'winds 8llnshlne llke " -an.] One of the Crinoidea; a crinoid. 
adv., around). Perhaps ult. connected Lowell, Among my Book's, 2d ser., p. 132. crinoline (krin'o-lin or -lin), n. and a. [< F. 
crinoliiif, hair-cloth, crinoline, < L. ertnts, hair, 
~. * -. . -i ^ _ t 
Perhaps ult. connected 
with Icel. hringr = AS. hring, E. ring : 
see rinyi. Cf. crinkle.] A ring or cir- 
cular bend, as of a rope. Specifically () 
Naut., a strand of rope so worked into the bolt- 
Cringle, they are intended : as, head-cringles, which are 
placed at the upper corners of the sail, for lash- 
ing them to the yards ; tvrf-rrin : ite, on the leeches of the 
sail, for passing the reef-eariugs through. (&) A withe or 
rope for fastening a gate. [Eng. ] Baring-cringle, the 
cringle through which an earing is passed. 
2t. To cringe. 
He that hath pleased her grace 
Thus far, shall not now crinde for a little. 
B. Jonxon, Alchemist, iii. 2. 
crinkle (kring'kl), n. [= D. krinkel, curve, 
flexure ; from the verb. Cf. cringle, with var. 
crenkle, etc.] A wrinkle ; a turn or twist ; a rip- 
ple ; a corrugation. 
The crinkles in this glass making objects appear double. 
A. Tucker, Light of Nature, II. xxvi. 
+ linum, flax: see Crine, line 1 , linen.] I. M. 1. 
A stiff material originally made wholly or in 
part of horsehair, whence the name. It was used 
about 18f>2 for stiff skirts, and, when this fashion was 
followed by that of wearing greatly projecting skirts of 
wire or sterl springs, tin 1 word continued to be used gen- 
erally for the latter. Crinoline is still in use for stiff lin- 
ing and the like, in the manner of buckram. 
Hence 2. A skirt made of this stuff or of any 
stiffened or starched material. 3. A frame- 
