finch
(noun) any of numerous small songbirds with short stout bills adapted for crushing seeds
Source: WordNet® 3.1
finch (plural finches)
Any bird of the family Fringillidae, seed-eating passerine birds, native chiefly to the Northern Hemisphere and usually having a conical beak.
finch (third-person singular simple present finches, present participle finching, simple past and past participle finched)
To hunt for finches, to go finching.
Finch
A surname, from finch as a byname or for a catcher and seller of finches.
Source: Wiktionary
Finch, n.; pl. Fishes. Etym: [AS. finc; akin to D. vink, OHG. fincho, G. fink; cf. W. pinc a finch; also E. spink.] (Zoöl.)
Definition: A small singing bird of many genera and species, belonging to the family Fringillidæ.
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 (Zoöl.), 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." Chaucer.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
27 May 2025
(noun) the property of being directional or maintaining a direction; “the directionality of written English is from left to right”
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
