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Definition of Bluecap
1. n. The bluepoll.
Definition of Bluecap
1. a flowering plant [n -S]
Medical Definition of Bluecap
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Bluecap
Literary usage of Bluecap
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the Brocklesby Hounds, 1700-1901 by George E. Collins (1902)
"Frater, Captain, Conqueror, and bluecap divided the twenty couples of puppies
between them in 1749, and the following year the twenty-two and a half couples ..."
2. The Monthly Chronicle of North Country Lore and Legend (1890)
"At Shilbottle Colliery, near Alnwick, bluecap was better known as Blue Bonnet.
But the Shilbottle pitmen no longer believe in any such unearthly diminutive ..."
3. Credulities Past and Present: Including the Sea and Seamen, Miners, Amulets by William Jones (1898)
"If they were a farthing below his due, the indignant bluecap would not pocket a
... The man shrewdly answered, he thought they would be taken by bluecap, ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia of Sport by Frederick George Aflalo, Hedley Peek (1897)
"Mr. Barry- hounds were bluecap, four years, and Wanton, three years ; and Will Crane
... Mr. Barry's bluecap came in firr. his Wanton (very close to ..."
5. Sporting Magazine edited by [Anonymus AC02751662] (1824)
"The four hounds were then laid on the scent: Mr. Barry's bluecap came in first ;
Wanton ... It is asserted, that on bluecap seeing some furze on the Heath, ..."
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