noun. Any of various birds of the family Fringillidae, including the goldfinches, siskins, and canaries, having a short stout bill used for cracking seeds.

noun. Any of various birds of the families Cardinalidae and Emberizidae, including the sparrows, cardinals, and grosbeaks, having a similar bill.

noun. The chaffinch; any bird of the genus Fringilla or family Fringillidæ, of which the species are very numerous; a bunting, sparrow, grosbeak, etc. See Fringillidæ.

noun. Any small conirostral oscine passerine bird, as of the family Ploceidæ or Tanagridæ; a weaver-bird or tanager.

noun. Loosely, in composition, some other small bird, as the fallow-finch.

noun. Peucæa cassini, a kind of summer finch of southwestern parts of the United States: named for the same.

noun. The yellow-hammer.

noun. The Texas sparrow, Embernagra rufovirgata. See Embernagra.

noun. A misnomer of the Canadian sparrow or tree-sparrow, Spizella monticola.

noun. The snow-bunting, Plectrophanes nivalis, in the plumage of winter, or of the female and young male.

noun. The pine-siskin, Chrysomitris pinus: so called from its fondness for the seeds of the pine.

An obsolete contracted form of finish.

noun. A small singing bird of many genera and species, belonging to the family Fringillidæ.

noun. See Brambling.

noun. the canary bird.

noun. See Chaffinch.

noun. See under Diamond.

noun. one of several very small East Indian falcons of the genus Hierax.

noun. to swindle an ignorant or unsuspecting person.

noun. Any bird of the family Fringillidae, seed-eating passerine birds, native chiefly to the Northern Hemisphere and usually having a conical beak.

verb. To hunt for finches, to go finching.

noun. any of numerous small songbirds with short stout bills adapted for crushing seeds

"Researchers were able to document the change in finch beak size and shape over the course of a few generations!"

angola finch  bell's finch  black-and-orange finch  black-faced finch  black-throated finch  

bullfinch  chaffinch  crimson-winged finch  desert finch  goldfinch  

oscine  oscine bird  

Hawaiian honeycreeper  brambling  bullfinch  bunting  canary  

Lynch  Minch  cinch  clinch  flinch  

blackbird  bluebird  bullfinch  chickadee  cuckoo