Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A linnet.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A linnet. Also
lintywhite . - noun A skylark or wood-warbler.
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- noun archaic A
linnet .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun small Old World finch whose male has a red breast and forehead
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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She could sing like the lintwhite that sports 'mang the whins,
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various
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A lintwhite was flying by them, and they gave chase.
Foes Mary Johnston 1903
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I met wi 'twa dink quines in particular, ane o' them a sonsie, fine, fodgel lass, baith braw and bonnie; the tither was clean-shankit, straught, tight, weelfar'd winch, as blythe's a lintwhite on a flowerie thorn, and as sweet and modest's a new-blawn plumrose in a hazle shaw.
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I met wi 'twa dink quines in particlar, ane o' them a sonsie, fine, fodgel lass, baith braw and bonnie; the tither was a clean-shankit, straught, tight, weel-far'd winch, as blythe's a lintwhite on a flowerie thorn, and as sweet and modest's a new blawn plumrose in a hazle shaw.
The Letters of Robert Burns Robert Burns 1777
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Purposefully moraceous make money work from home, but the lintwhite unholiness was that the wildness sokoro was buried me surpassingly was a permanently in the pintado flyer skillet.
Rational Review 2009
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Lorimer; she was not more than seventeen when the poet made her acquaintance, and though she had got a sort of brevet-right from an officer of the army, to use his southron name of Whelpdale, she loved best to be addressed by her maiden designation, while the poet chose to veil her in the numerous lyrics, to which she gave life, under the names of "Chloris," "The lass of Craigie-burnwood," and "The lassie wi 'the lintwhite locks."
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