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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



... 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
... confinement to learn that of other birds instead. Bechstein gives an account of a redstart which had built under the eaves of his house, which imitated the song of a caged chaffinch in a window underneath, while another in his neighbour's garden repeated some of the notes of a blackcap, which had a ...
— Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection - A Series of Essays • Alfred Russel Wallace
... sitter the female blackcap is! One day I discovered a nest in a fence post by the wayside. Pressing the bark aside, I could plainly see the little owner snuggling close to the bottom of the cup. I thrust my finger through the aperture and gently stroked her head and back. Still ...
— Our Bird Comrades • Leander S. (Leander Sylvester) Keyser
... the afternoon Mr. Jones appeared, and I was glad to see him, for there were some kinds of work about which I wanted his advice. At one end of the garden were several rows of blackcap raspberry bushes, which had grown into an awful snarl. The old canes that had borne fruit the previous season were still standing, ragged and unsightly; the new stalks that would bear the coming season sprawled in every direction; and I had found that many ...
— Driven Back to Eden • E. P. Roe
... 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


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