Definition of "linnet" []

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

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The linnet is here, and the lark, and the yellowhammer,"
• "For the voice that he swore 'ud out-call the linnet's"
• "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."