Black"-browed` (blk"broud`), a. Having black eyebrows. Hence: Gloomy; dismal; threatening; forbidding. Shak. Dryden.
Black*bur"ni*an war"bler (&?;). [Named from Mrs. Blackburn, an English lady.] (Zoöl.) A beautiful warbler of the United States (Dendroica Blackburniæ). The male is strongly marked with orange, yellow, and black on the head and neck, and has an orange-yellow breast.
Black"cap` (-kp`), n. 1. (Zoöl.) (a) A small European song bird (Sylvia atricapilla), with a black crown; the mock nightingale. (b) An American titmouse (Parus atricapillus); the chickadee.
2. (Cookery) An apple roasted till black, to be served in a dish of boiled custard.