linn

noun

1. (Northern-England, Scotland, Wales)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,”

   “And the roaring of the linn.”

   “Hear! now, Yon linn's melodious thunder!”

2. (Northern-England, Scotland, Wales)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.”

   “The pool is there — the true linn, in the original acceptance of the word — dark and bottomless.”

   “A trellised path led down into the valley of the brook, and he turned to follow it. The stream was a breakneck, boiling Highland river. Hard by the farm, it leaped a little precipice in a thick grey-mare's tail of twisted filaments, and then lay and worked and bubbled in a linn. Into the middle of this quaking pool a rock protruded, shelving to a cape; and thither Otto scrambled and sat down to ponder.”

   “His successful angler landing the linn-lier [fish that inhabits a pool of water].”

name

1. A surname.
2. A city and town in Kansas, United States.
3. A small city, the county seat of Osage County, Missouri, United States.
4. A town in Wisconsin, United States.