† crinet Obs.
[dim. of F. crin hair: see -et1.]
1. A hair.
| 1572 Gascoigne Flowers Wks. (1587) 67 The heeres were not of gold But of some other metall farre more fine Wher of ech crinet seemed to behold Like glistering wyars. |
2. Hawking. (pl.) The small hair-like feathers which grow about the cere of a hawk. (Also written crinites; now called crines.)
| 1486 Bk. St. Albans B j b, Ther be oon an hawke long smale blake federis like heris abowte the sere & thossame be calde Crinettis of y⊇ hawke. 1610 J. Guillim Heraldry iii. xx. (1660) 223. 1792 Osbaldiston Brit. Sportsman 130/1 Crinets or Crinites, with falconers, small black feathers in hawks. |
3. = crinière. (Cf. cranet1.)
| 1586 J. Ferne Blaz. Gentrie 336 Vpon any sadle, crinet, bard, chapperon, cooperison or other indument. |