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The chaffinch. [Prov. Eng.]

A squinch.

A squinch.

One who scribles; a literary hack. The scribbler, pinched with hunger, writes to dine. Granville.

A pinching miser; a niggard. [U.S.]

and are mostly of moderate size, but some species become eight or ten feet long and four inches broad.

aming machine, a machine for uniting the edges of sheet-metal plates by bending them and pinching them together.

Indian plant (Sechium edule) of the Gourd family. It is soft, pear-shaped, and about four inches long, and contains a single large seed. The root of the plant resembles a yam, and is used for food.

In the duodecimal system of mensuration, the twelfth part of an inch or prime; a line. See Inch, and Prime, n., 8.

seeds, as cotton seed. -- Seed drill. See 6th Drill, 2 (a). -- Seed eater (Zoöl.), any finch of the genera Sporophila, and Crithagra. They feed mainly on seeds. -- Seed gall (Zoöl.), any gall which resembles a seed, formed, on the leaves of various plants, usually by some species of Phylloxera. -- Seed leaf (Bot.),…

A European finch (Serinus hortulanus) closely related to the canary.

dress uniform, is not worn. In the United States army the service cap is round, about 3½ inches high, flat-topped, with a visor. The service hat is of soft felt of khaki color, with broad brim and high crown, creased down the middle.

A measure of about six inches. [Obs.]

hicket; a small wood or grove. [Obs. or Prov.Eng. & Scot.] Burns. Gaillard he was as goldfinch in the shaw. Chaucer. The green shaws, the merry green woods. Howitt.

The chaffinch; -- so named from its call note. [Prov. Eng.]

A chaffinch. [Written also sheldapple, and shellapple.]

The bullfinch.

opens and shuts; and Wodrow describes it as a window of shutters made of timber and a few inches of glass above them.

t right angles with its side, across the curved edge; as, a timber having a siding of ten inches.

An Old World finch of the genus Minia, as the M. Malabarica of India, and M. cantans of Africa.