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black cap, ˈblack-cap, ˈblackcap
1. black cap: spec. that worn by English judges when in full dress, and consequently put on by them when passing sentence of death upon a prisoner.
1838Dickens O. Twist lii, The jury returned..The judge assumed the black cap.
2. One who wears a black cap or head-dress.
1856J. Grant Bl. Dragoon v, The old blackcaps frowned terribly at..this fashion.
3. blackcap: A name given to various birds having the top of the head black; esp. by English writers to the small bird also called Blackcap Warbler, Curruca (or Motacilla) atricapilla.
Also applied locally to: a. Several species of Parus, as P. major the Great Tit, P. palustris the Marsh Tit, P. ater the Cole Tit, and in U.S. P. atricapillus the Blackcap Tit, or Chickadee; b. the Black-headed Bunting; c. the Black-headed Gull; d. the Stonechat; and casually to others.
1678Ray Willughby's Ornith. 241 The Marsh Titmouse or Black-cap. Ibid. 347 The Pewit or Black-cap, called in some places, the Sea-Crow and Mire-Crow. 1768Pennant Zool. II. 262 The black cap is a bird of passage, leaving us before winter. 1789G. White Selborne (1853) 145 The black-cap has..a full sweet deep loud and wild pipe. 1802G. Montagu Ornith. Dict. (1833) 350 Great Black-headed Tomtit, Blackcap. Ibid. 415 Black-bonnet, Black-cap, prov. names for the Black-headed Bunting, Emberiza schœniclus. 1863Yng. England Aug. 127 In Wiltshire I have heard the red-backed shrike..called the black cap. 1883G. Allen in Knowledge 25 May 304/1 Blackcaps are above everything hangers-on of civilisation.
4. a. black-cap pudding: a boiled batter pudding into which a handful of currants or raisins is dropped before boiling, which sink to the bottom, and form a black capping when the pudding is reversed out of the basin or mould.
1822W. Kitchiner Cook's Oracle 517.
b. A halved apple baked with the flat side downwards and a ‘cap’ of sugar.
1723J. Nott Cook's & Confectioner's Dict. No. 103 B, Black Cap. Take..large Pippins..cut them in halves..squeeze a Lemon..over them..grate over them..Sugar..put them into a quick Oven. 1958Listener 27 Nov. 903/1 Sprinkle a ‘cap’ of caster sugar on each [sc. apple]. Bake for twenty or twenty-five minutes above the chicken, and when the bird goes to the top of the oven, put the ‘blackcaps’ in its place.
5. A variety of raspberry; the Black Raspberry, Rubus occidentalis. U.S.
1847W. Darlington Agric. Bot. 127 Rubus occidentalis..Wild or Black Raspberry. Thimble-berry. Black Caps. 1886Harper's Mag. July 281/2 There is another American species of raspberry (Rubus occidentalis) that is almost as dear to memory as the wild strawberry—the thimble-berry, or black-cap. 1946B. MacDonald Egg & I (1947) vi. 85 Alder, salal, wild raspberry and blackcaps. |