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Scrine, Screing(e, n. Also: scringe, skringe, skrene, skrein(e, skreing, skreinch, screan(e, screang, screen, scraing(e. [ME and e.m.E. skreu (? read skren) (1393), skrene (1403), screne (Prompt. Parv.), e.m.E. also scrine (1538), skrine, skreine (1573). ‘Of difficult etymology’ (OED). Prob. f. an AF var. or deriv. of OF escran (escrin, -en, -ime), MDu. scherm.There is some formal confusion with S(c)hrine n. a coffer, q.v. sense 2.]

A screen, a piece of furniture usu. consisting of a number of narrow rectangular leaves, freq. covered with cloth or hung with curtains, used to ward off heat, afford privacy, etc. Also, specif., a wand-screne, ? a pole-screen, a fire-screen mounted on an upright pole or rod. Also attrib.(1) c1575 Balfour Pract. 235.
The air sall have be ressoun of airschip … ane wair almerie, ane scrine, ane letteron, ane pres 1587 Montgomery Mem. 341.
Ane skringe, consisting of foure leafes 1664 Inv. 5 in Decr. Dalr. XI.
Ane scringe with three loffs(b) 1632 Inv. Newark 3b.
Of grein seybumbassie skreines 1652 Edinb. Test. LXVI 65.
Ane skreinch worth vj lib. 1654 Ib. LXVIII 40.
The standers of ane pair of screinges of sex dores 1658 Ib. LXIX 145.
Ane screang with the cover 1663 Craven Ch. in Orkney 15.
Fornicators [had begun to perform their penances] in screens or ane whyte schete. [This was prohibited. They were to appear in sackcloth] 1663 Edinb. Test. LXXI 102.
Ane pair of screinges with old courteinges 1664 Ib. 376b.
Ane old screinge of thrie doors worth 1 lib. 1674 Fraser P. 257.
Ane scarlet baise skreing(c) 1654 Edinb. Test. LXVIII 230.
Scrainges(2) 1610 Hist. Kinloss A. xi.
Ane wand skrene for the fyr 1643 Edinb. Test. LX 270b.
Sex timber fallis and ane dossane of waind screanes estimat all to x lib.attrib. 1632 Inv. Newark 36.
Of grein cairsey skrein cloathes 1645 Edinb. Test. LXI 105.
Ane scringe courtinge estimat to ij marks