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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[L.

scrinium

a case for books, letters, etc.: cf. OF.

escrin

, F.

écrin

. See

A chest, bookcase, or other place, where writings or curiosities are deposited; a shrine.

[Obs.]

But laid them up in immortal

scrine

Spenser.

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.]

scrine ‎(plural scrines)

(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 [...].