▪ I. † ˈcrany Obs.
Also 7 cranie.
= cranium.
| 1525 Jerome of Brunswick's Surg. xxx, With brekyng of Craney. 1643 Sir T. Browne Relig. Med. 88 The Crany of a beast. 1646 ― Pseud. Ep. iii. xiii. 137 It was rather the forehead bone petrified, then a stone within the crany. ? 1730 Swift Dan Jackson's Reply Wks. 1755 IV. i. 258 Good spelling-master, your crany has lead on't. |
▪ II. crany, craon
obs. ff. cranny, crayon.