▪ I. † scrive, n.1 Obs.
A shriek, a noise.
| c 1400 Destr. Troy 9511 The shippes on a shene frye shot þai belyue, That the low vp lightly launchit aboute; And all chrickenede with the scriue þurgh the styrn ost. |
▪ II. scrive, n.2
(skraɪv)
[f. scrive v. 2.]
= scribe n.2
| 1839 Chatto Wood Engraving 2 ‘To scrive’..signifies, in our own language, to cut numerals or other characters on timber with a tool called a scrive. |
▪ III. scrive, v.
(skraɪv)
Also 4 skr-.
[Formation somewhat uncertain; perh. aphetic for descrive.]
† 1. a. trans. To describe. b. intr. To write. Obs.
| 13.. Ipotis 399 (Vernon MS.) in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1881) 345 Glotenye, I wol now skriue, Is among monkunne ful ryue. c 1430 Hymns Virgin (1895) 58 How mankinde dooþ bigynne is wondir for to scryue so. a 1529 Skelton Agst. Garnesche iv. 91 It semyth nat thy pyllyd pate Agenst a poyet lawreat To take vpon the for to scryue. 1530 Palsgr. 707/2, I scryve a thyng, I discrybe the maner of it, je descris. |
2. trans. = scribe v.
| 1829 Brockett N.C. Gloss. (ed. 2), Skrive, to mark or scratch wood or metal. 1839 [see scrive n.2]. 1874 Thearle Naval Archit. 143 When the lines of the sections or frames are accurately drawn, they are scratched or ‘scrived’ in by a sharp-pointed tool. |
▪ IV. scrive
obs. (north.) form of shrive v.