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ˈblue-cap
[Cf. blue-bonnet.]
1. A cap of blue material; formerly worn by servants and tradesmen (see blue a. 5 c.); the ‘blue bonnet’ of Scotchmen. Also attrib.
1674Flatman Belly God 114 The Kentish Pippin's best, I dare be bold, That ever blew-cap Costard monger sold.
2. transf. One who wears this head-dress; † a Scotchman, a blue-bonnet (obs.).
1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, ii. iv. 392 Well, hee is there too, and one Mordake, and a thousand blew-Cappes more. 1627E. F. Hist. Edw. II (1680) 39 (D.) A rabble multitude of despised Blue-caps encounter, rout, and break the flower of England. 1663in Select. Harl. Misc. (1793) 367 The precipitate blue-cap..would needs fall upon them at Dunbar.
3. dial. A salmon in its first year, a grilse; so called because it has a blue spot on its head.
1677in Ray's Corr. (1848) 127 These [salmon] have a broad blue spot on their heads, and are therefore called Blue-caps. 1865Couch Brit. Fishes IV. 220 In the west of the Kingdom the name of Blue cap is applied by some fishermen to the Salmon in the first year of its growth.
4. The Blue Titmouse (Parus cæruleus).
1804Wordsw. Kitten & Falling L. 64 Where is he that giddy sprite, Blue-cap with his colours bright, Who was blest as bird could be. 1837MacGillivray Hist. Brit. Birds II. 431 Blue Titmouse..Blue-cap, Blue bonnet, etc.
5. The Blue Corn-flower; = blue bonnet 3.
1821Clare Vill. Minstr. II. 131 Till summer's blue-caps blossom mid the corn.
6. A kind of ale.
1822W. Kitchiner Cook's Oracle 60 The Irishman loves Usquebaugh, the Scot loves Ale called Blue-Cap.
†7. A kind of stone. Obs.
1679Plot Staffordsh. (1686) 158 A sort of stone from its colour call'd blew-cap, good for nothing.
8. (See cap n.1 11 c.) |