linnet

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  1. noun A small Old World finch (Carduelis cannabina) having brownish plumage.
  2. noun A similar bird (Carpodacus mexicanus) of Mexico and the western United States. Also called house finch.

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  • The English word linnet does not, to my mind, convey so much of simple beauty and of pastoral ideas as belong to our Scottish word LINTIE. —  Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character
  • I am old! you may trust me, linnet, linnet -- —  Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 2
  • you may trust me, linnet, linnet-- I am seven times one to-day SHUFFLE-SHOON AND AMBER-LOCKS [Footnote: From 'Love Songs of Childhood'. —  Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 2
  • A difficult task indeed for a linnet! —  The Story of a Soul
  • “Ah, linnet, lightly won, —  Memories and Anecdotes
 

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  1. Obsolete French linette, from Old French, from lin, flax (from its feeding on flax seed), from Latin līnum; see librevema.gifno- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English linet, lynet, from Anglo-Saxon līnete, a linnet; mixed in Middle English with Old French linot, French linot, masculine, linotte, feminine, a linnet; so called from their feeding on flaxseed, from Latin linum, flax: see line, Cf. the related lintwhite. Cf. German hänfling, a linnet, from hanf, hemp.
 

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