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Webster 1913 Edition


Scrine

Scrine

,
Noun.
[L.
scrinium
a case for books, letters, etc.: cf. OF.
escrin
, F.
écrin
. See
Shrine
.]
A chest, bookcase, or other place, where writings or curiosities are deposited; a shrine.
[Obs.]
But laid them up in immortal
scrine
.
Spenser.

Webster 1828 Edition


Scrine

SCRINE

,
Noun.
[L. scrinium;, cerno, secerno.]
A shrine; a chest, book-case or other place where writings or curiosities are deposited. [See shrine, which is generally used.]

Definition 2024


scrine

scrine

English

Noun

scrine (plural scrines)

  1. (obsolete) A chest or other box for storing valuables.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene I.2:
      Lay forth out of thine euerlasting scryne / The antique rolles, which there lye hidden still [...].

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