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n. Any of various relatively small birds of the family Fringillidae, including the goldfinches, sparrows, cardinals, grosbeaks, and canaries, having a short stout bill adapted for cracking seeds.

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

v. To hunt for finches, to go finching.

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

n. 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.

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

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

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

n. The yellow-hammer.

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

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

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

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

An obsolete contracted form of finish.

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

"The story of the finch is a parable about losing one home, the nest, and finding a series of others: a home with a foster family, and then, we hope, a home in the wider world, where the hospitality of strangers makes survival possible, and where those strangers, in turn, become friends and family."

oscine    oscine bird   

cinereous finch    strasburg finch    bramble-finch    rufous-chinned finch    seaside finch    red-headed finch    fasciated finch    thistle-finch    lincoln's finch    yellow-throated finch   

honeycreeper    serin    fringilla montifringilla    pyrrhula pyrrhula    canary    redpoll    spinus pinus    house finch    carpodacus purpureus    bunting   

crimson-winged finch    chaffinch    bullfinch    goldfinch    desert finch   

Lynch    Minch    cinch    clinch    flinch    grinch    hinch    inch    kinch    linch   

goldfinch    meadowlark    linnet    bluebird    blackbird    redbird    thrush    bullfinch    sparrer    titmice