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Blackcap   Listen
noun
Blackcap  n.  
1.
(Zool.)
(a)
A small European song bird (Sylvia atricapilla), with a black crown; the mock nightingale.
(b)
An American titmouse (Parus atricapillus); the chickadee. Also called the black-cap chickadee.
2.
(Cookery) An apple roasted till black, to be served in a dish of boiled custard.
3.
The black raspberry.





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"Blackcap" Quotes from Famous Books



... high and low, but could find him nowhere. Then the old dame laughed and laughed to see how the others looked for the little fellow, but could not tell where he was. At last she could hold her peace no longer, but called out in a loud voice, "Look under the leaf, Blackcap!" ...
— Pepper & Salt - or, Seasoning for Young Folk • Howard Pyle
... used all his powers of language, which were limited, and all his strength of will, which was great, in trying to induce Audrey to leave service and go home to her people. Audrey was quiet, but she was as set as Blackcap Down. ...
— Masters of the Guild • L. Lamprey
... Winchelsea and Rye: one certainly more often hears of "Newick and Chailey" than of either separately. Chailey has a wide breezy common from which the line of Downs between Ditchling Beacon and Lewes can be seen perhaps to their best advantage. Immediately to the south, and just to the west of Blackcap, the hill with a crest of trees, is Plumpton Plain, six hundred feet high, where the Barons formed their ranks to meet the third Harry in the Battle of Lewes, the actual fighting being on Mount Harry, the hill ...
— Highways & Byways in Sussex • E.V. Lucas


Words linked to "Blackcap" :   black raspberry, seagull, pewit gull, Rubus occidentalis, blackcap raspberry, thimbleberry, Larus ridibundus, Larus, Silvia atricapilla, genus Silvia, pewit, true warbler, Old World warbler, Silvia, Wilson's blackcap


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