Crinîtus, pen. prod. Adiectiuum. Virg.That hath much or long hayre.Crinitis arbusculis apices sunt pauonibus. Plin. Peacockes haue tuftes on their heads, as it were trees of hayre.Colla totis crimta tument.Stat.Their neckes be thicke with manes of hayre.Galea crmita triplici iuba.Virg.An helmet hauing a crest of a triple mane of a beast: as they nowe a dayes weare plumes of feathers.Malè crimta mulier.Ouid.A woman balde or hauing little hayre.Nox crinita facibus lnciferis.Val. Flac.A night wherein blasing startes appeare.Vertex cumtus.Stat.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
crīnĭo, no perf., ītum, 4, v. a. [crinis], to provide or cover with hair; as verb. finit. rare, and only transf. of leaves of plants: frondibus crinitur arbos, Stat. S. 4, 5, 10; id. Th. 4, 217.—But freq., II. In part. perf.: crīnītus, a, um, covered with hair, hairy; esp., having long hair or locks, long-haired.A.Lit.: Apollo, Enn. ap. Cic. Ac. 2, 28, 89: lopas, Verg. A. 1, 740: male puella, Ov. A. A. 3, 243: turbae (sc. puerorum), Mart. 12, 49: colla equorum, Stat. Th. 6, 418 al.—B.Transf.: galea triplici jubā, Verg. A. 7, 785: stella,