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Finch   /fɪntʃ/   Listen
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Finch  n.  (pl. finches)  (Zool.) A small singing bird of many genera and species, belonging to the family Fringillidae. Note: The word is often used in composition, as in chaffinch, goldfinch, grassfinch, pinefinch, etc.
Bramble finch. See Brambling.
Canary finch, the canary bird.
Copper finch. See Chaffinch.
Diamond finch. See under Diamond.
Finch falcon (Zool.), one of several very small East Indian falcons of the genus Hierax.
To pull a finch, to swindle an ignorant or unsuspecting person. (Obs.) "Privily a finch eke could he pull."






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... me one, too, for my nest," added Piney the Purple Finch, and without waiting for consent he plucked two. Rusty the Blackbird came swooping down next. "I need some of your beautiful white fur to show my little ones," he ...
— Bumper, The White Rabbit • George Ethelbert Walsh

... of the Vesper-bird are the pastures and the hay-fields; hence the name of Grass-Finch, by which he is usually distinguished. His voice is heard frequently by the rustic roadsides, where he picks up a considerable portion of his subsistence. This is the little bird that so generally serenades us during our evening walks, at a little ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Issue 12, October, 1858 • Various

... war was over a poet of New York State, F. M. Finch, sang of these and of other graves in his beautiful Decoration Day lyric, The Blue and the Gray, which spoke the word of reconciliation and consecration for ...
— Brief History of English and American Literature • Henry A. Beers

... Leicester; while Giles de la Hyde also slew Thomas Tapicier in 1385. Possibly these rows occurred on account of a practical infringement upon the manufacturing rights of others as set down in the rules of the Company. There was a woman in Finch Lane who produced tapestry, with a cotton back, "after the manner of the works of Arras:" this was considered a dishonest business, and the work was ...
— Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages • Julia De Wolf Addison

... part of the King of England; but how does it correspond to his last Speech to his Parliament [19th April last, when Mr. Viner was in such minority of one] and to the doings of his Ministers at Petersburg [a pretty Partition-Treaty that; and the Excellency Finch still busy, as I know!] and at the Hague [Excellency Trevor there, and this beautiful Joint-Resolution and Advice which is coming!] to stir up allies against me? I have reason rather to doubt the sincerity of the King of England. They perhaps ...
— History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XIII. (of XXI.) • Thomas Carlyle


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