linties

The linties they are lilting love, on ilka bush an 'tree,

The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various

We'll sing like linties, an 'drum like thunder, an' the blacklegs'll feel as if they were goin 'through Purgatory to the tune

The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner James C. Welsh

To the young he was a romantic figure, because they saw him frequently in the fields with his call-birds tempting siskins, yellow yites, and linties to twigs which he had previously smeared with lime.

Auld Licht Idylls 1898

Maist of yours are only sparrows and linties and robin-redbreasts. "

The Story of My Boyhood and Youth John Muir 1876

But he could not help making this exception when he thought of the “banks and braes o 'bonny Doon” ” “But oh, sir,” he said, “there are nae linties i' the wuds.”

Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character Ramsay, Edward B 1874