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S(c)hrine, S(c)hryn(e, n. Also: schrin, schryine, schyrn, schyryn, schirryne; schrywin, -en; schring; schrene; screhyne; Chirryne. [ME and e.m.E. schrine (c1290), shrene (c1420), OE scrín, MLG, schrîn, MDu. shrîne, ON skrín, L. scrīnium case or chest for books or papers.]

1. A chest, coffer; a strong-box; a box. Also attrib. and comb.(1) 14.. Acts I 306/2.
Of a kyst or of ane ark with lok twa peniis, bot lok a peny, of a kyst or a schryne wyth sape in it twa peniis, of a kyst or schryne with wax a peny 1446 Aberd. B. Rec. MS IV p. 438 (17 June).
j kist or schryne 1463 Ib. (Sp.C.) I 24.
A countir and a schryne, price xx s. 1482–3 Acta Aud. in Acta Conc. II cxxiv.
j grete schryne, … ij li., a Flandris kist, … xiij s. iiij d. 1496 Halyb. 7.
For houssin and makyn of ii kyis to his schryn 1519 Reg. Episc. Aberd. II 175.
Ane aikkin schryne 1522 Dunferm. B. Rec. I 209.
Ane maill schryne ane schryn in the boutht 1527 Aberd. B. Rec. I 117.
Tua siluer spounis liand in the locker of ane schryne 1529 Reg. Great S. 178.
A shrine of aik price 26 s. 8 d. 1533 Boece 224b.
Fergus be cavill gat ane schryne full of bukis to his parte a1538 Abell 73a.
Bid him pas to sic ane schrin & thare he sall tak ane sowme of gold 1538 Selkirk B. Ct. (ed.) 199.
Schir Niniane Brydin, our common clerk, hes gevin to the haill communite ane schrine to obserf and keip our common seall, chartour, instrumentis, preceptis 1539 Ex. Processes (Reg. H.) No. x (Scott v. Scott & McDowall).
Ane gret schryne price iij li. 1546 Acta Conc. & Sess. MS 53b.
The … distructioun … of the said Johnnis … kistis schrynis almeringis standand burdis 1559–60 11th Rep. Hist. MSS. App. vi 223.
The said … lord … tuike furth of ane coffir or schryne … ane dosane siluer trunschewris, … ane lawar of siluer [etc.] 1560 Old Dundee II 236.
Ane grite schryne of aik, with lock and key 1560 Stirling B. Rec. I 75.
Ane schryne but the lid 1578 Prot. Bk. J. Scott 57b.
Ane grytt schryine 1605 Edinb. Test. XL 33.
In the coffer or schryne … ane gowne of growgrane(b) 1540 Treas. Acc. VII 397.
For … bringing of ane screhyne witht his evidentis furtht of Cragnethane(c) 14.. Acts I 44/2.
A schyrn 1623 Sc. Ant. VI 181.
The schirryne in the paintit chalmer(d) 1540 Maxwell Mem. I 409.
Ane schring(e) 1561 Inv. Wardrobe 152.
Ane schrene garnisit with quhite irne(f) 1569–70 Inverness Rec. I 183.
Ane schrywin 1573–4 Ib. 235.
[He] will nocht delywer me the said schrywen without he be compellit(2) 1516 Edinb. B. Rec. I 161.
Ane Flandris schryne 1517 Misc. Spald. C. II 79.
Ane gret Flandres schryne 1573 Prot. Bk. Thomas Johnsoun 172.
1 Flanderis schryne(3) attrib. and comb. 1525–6 (c1580) Edinb. B. Rec. I 227.
And for the custome of the guidis being in the schryne pakket 1627 Edinb. Test. LIV 106.
My meikill trunk or schyryn kist, being ane Danskein kist 1645 Ib. LXI 226.
[Ane] shryne kist pryce iiij lib.

b. fig. A repository. c1508 Ch. & M. Prints vii c 31.
Thou schryne secrete of stynkand voke & pride

c. A case for a dead body; a coffin. c1550 Lynd. Test. Meldrum 53.
Syne wesche it [sc. my body] weill with wyne … Syne clois it in ane coistlie caruit schryne Of ceder treis or of cyper fyne

2. Something that encloses, screens or curtains off; a screen. Also fig. 1653 Soc. Ant. XXIII 300.
Ane large green cloth shryne of fourfolds the cloath therof doublefig. a1649 Drummond Wks. (1711) 60.
Favourites are shrines to shadow princes from their people