linn
Collocations
4ADJ.
clear, o'er, original, roaring, true
VERB + LINN
brawling
LINN + NOUN
discord, it's, trouts
PREP.
down, in, in, up
Definitions
noun
A waterfall or cataract (torrent of water running over a rocky bed), or a ravine down which such a waterfall rushes.
What seek we here / Amid this waste where desolation scowls, / And the red torrent, brawling down the linn, / Sings everlasting discord?
"For it's o'er the bank, and it's o'er the linn, "And it's up to the meadow ridge—" "Ay," quo' the Stumpie hirpling in,
noun
A pool of water, especially one formed and agitated by the water from a cascade.
There frisks the freckl'd finny tribe, In linns both wide and steep.
In the clear linn the trouts shuttled from stone and crevice.
name
A surname.
A city and town in Kansas, United States.
A small city, the county seat of Osage County, Missouri, United States.
A town in Wisconsin, United States.
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6What seek we here / Amid this waste where desolation scowls, / And the red torrent, brawling down the linn, / Sings everlasting discord?
Wiktionary"For it's o'er the bank, and it's o'er the linn, "And it's up to the meadow ridge—" "Ay," quo' the Stumpie hirpling in,
WiktionaryAnd the roaring of the linn.
WiktionaryThere frisks the freckl'd finny tribe, In linns both wide and steep.
WiktionaryIn the clear linn the trouts shuttled from stone and crevice.
WiktionaryThe pool is there — the true linn, in the original acceptance of the word — dark and bottomless.
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