Crinis, huius crinis, m. g. Crines. Hayre of the head.Adulti crines.Stat.Hayreat full growth.Candidi.Val. Flac. Cani. Stat.Compti. Horat. Decori. Stat.Erecti crines horrent.Senec.Stareth or standeth on ende.Flaui.Virg. Hirsuti. Ouid. Hirti. Ouid.Ingenui.Stat. Intonsi. Tibul. Intorti.Val. Flac.Curled. Laceri. Senec.Longi.Virg. Madidi. Val. Flac.Mœsti.Virg. Nigro crine decori. Horat. Passi crines.Virg.Hanging loose about the head.Porpurei.Ouid.Rosei. Claud. Simplices. Ouid.Sordidi puluere.Senec. Sparsi. Val. Flac.Splendidi ostro.Ouid. Vagi per colla. Ouid.Virginei.Ouid. Accisi crines.Tacit.Hayre cut or notted.Auferre crinem alicui.Virg.To poll or notte.Colligere incerros, & in ordine ponere crines.Ouid.Collectus criuis in voum nodum.Ouid.Tied vp togither.Comere crinem.Stat.To kembe the head.Comantes crines. Silius. Compositi crines.Virg.A bush finely set.Deducere crines pectine.Ouid.To kembe the head, as a woman doth.Demissus crinis.Ouid.Hanging downe long.Deponere crinem.Tacit.Desecare crinem.Ouid. Disijcere crines. Silius. Disponere crines. Tibul. Dissimulare crinem. Ouid.Distinguere crinem docta manu.Senec.Impexos certo domat ordine crines.Stat.Effundere crines. Lucan. To spread the hayre abroade.Emissi crines.Stat.Hayre cast abroade as a woman loosing hir head.Euinctus vitra crines albente sacerdos.Ouid.Hauing hyr hayre trussed vp.Exutus canos crines.Stat. Flauens crinis. Senec.Frangere crinem.Stat. Fusi crines. Virg.Iacens in collo crinis.Ouid.Iactare crinem per auras.Ouid.Impexi crines. Claud. A head vnkembed.Aurum implexum crimbus. Plin. Implicare crinem auro.Virg.To plat with a lase of golde.Innectere crinem lauro.Ouid.To set a garland of laurell on ones head.Intorti crines. Silius. Inuoluere crinem. Sil. Irrorare crinem aquis. Ouid.Lacerare crinem.Senec.Laniare crinem arreptum.Ouid.To take and teare.Ligare crines. Claud. To tie vp. Madens crinis. Virg.Mouere per aera crinem.Ouid.Roseos nectere pectine crines. Claud. Nitens crine. Martial. Crines nodantur in aurum.Virg.Hir hayre is trussed vp in a coyfe of golde.Ornatus crines apio.Virg.Perfundere crinem amomo. Sil. To cast vpon.Premere crines mitra.Senec.Promirtere crinem barbámque. Tácit. To let the hayre or beard grow in length. Propexus crinis. Tacit.Kembed.Redimitus arundine crines.Ouid.Repexo crine flaua Gallia. Claud. Resolutus crinis. Ouid.Retuso crine languida stella. Clau. Rutilatus crinis. Tacit.Scindere crines.Ouid. Secare crinem. Virg.Soluere crines.Ouid.-solutis Crinibus exululant matres. Sil. Casting abroadetheir hayre.Sparsus crinis.Senec.Cast abroade.Spiranti crine odoratus.Val. Flac.Subnixus crinem mitra.Virg.Summittere crinem ac barbam. Tacitus. To let growe in length.Tosti crines.Ouid. Tractus crinis. Senec.Vibran crines calido ferro.Virg.Hayre crisped with a hote yron.Crines polypi. Plin. The finnes of Polypus. Crinis vitium. Plin. The bondes of vines.
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crīnis, is, m. (fem., Atta ap. Non. p. 202, 29; acc. to the latter also Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 69; and so in Ritschl) [kindr. with crista; cf. ko/rus, korufh/], the hair.I. Prop. (class.; esp. freq. in the poets), Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 33, 76; Caes. B. G. 1, 51; id. B. C. 3, 9; Liv. 1, 13, 1; 3, 7, 8 et saep.; Verg. A. 1, 480; Cat. 64, 391; Hor. C. 2, 5, 24; 2, 19, 20 et saep.: capere crines, i. e. to marry (since the matrons distinguished themselves from maidens by their hair-dress), Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 69; cf. id. Mil. 3, 1, 195; and Fest. p. 339, 23 Müll.—Collectively, in sing., = crines, Hor. C. 1, 32, 12; 2, 12, 23 sq.—B. Rarely a hair: uxor rufa crinibus septem, Mart. 12, 32, 4.—II.Meton., of objects resembling hair; so, A.The tail of a comet, Verg. A. 5, 528; Ov. M. 15, 849; Plin. 2, 25, 22, 89 and 90 al. (cf. crinitus, under crinio, II. B.); the rays of stars, Val. Fl. 2, 42; of the fire, id. 1, 205.—B.The feelers of polypi: conchas (polypi) conplexu crinium frangunt, Plin. 9, 29, 46, 86; of the cuttle-fish, Apic. 2, 1.—C.The fibres of wood: crines ramentorum, Plin. 16, 42, 82, 225.