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▪ I. caddis1, caddice|ˈkædɪs|
Forms: 5–9 cadas, 5 cadace, 6 cadys, -yas, -es, caddes, -iz, -esse, 6–7 caddys, 6–8 caddas, 6–9 caddis, caddice, 7 cadice, (8 cadduce), 8–9 cadis.
[Here two words are apparently mixed up: 1 (sense 1), properly cadas, cadace, OF. cadaz, cadas, cf. Cotgr. cadarce ‘the tow or coarsest part of silke, whereof sleaue is made’; cf. Irish cadas = cadan cotton; 2 F. cadis (15th c. in Littré) ‘sorte de serge de laine, de bas pris’. Of both, the ulterior history is unknown.]
†1. Cotton wool, floss silk, or the like, used in padding: Scotch writers of the 18th c. applied the name to ‘lint’ used in surgery. Obs.
[Hue de Tabarie MS. Heber No. 8336 in Promp. Parv. 57 Pur cadaz e cotoun de saunk fu le encusture.] a1400Cov. Myst. 241 Cadace wolle or flokkys..To stuffe withal thi dobbelet. 1440Promp. Parv. 57/2 Cadas, bombicinium. 1458Will of Gist (Somerset Ho.), Vnum Jakke stuffed cum Cadace. 1463in Rot. Parl. in Promp. Parv. 57 No..bolstors, nor stuffe of woole, coton or cadas, nor other stuffer in his doublet. 1738Med. Ess, & Observ. (ed. 2) IV. 334 Soft half-worn Linen, which the French call Charpie, the English, Lint, and we Caddiss. 1769W. Buchan Dom. Med. (1790) 578 With soft lint, commonly called caddis.
†2. Worsted yarn, crewel. Obs.
1530Palsgr. 202/1 Caddas or crule, sayette. 1548W. Patten Exped. Scotl. in Arb. Garner III. 92 Hemmed round about..with pasmain lace of green caddis. 1721C. King Brit. Merch. I. 286 Tapestry with Caddas.
†b. Hence attrib. as a material. Obs.
1550–1600Customs Duties, Addit. MS. Brit. Mus. No. 25097 Cruell or Caddas rybande. 1575Laneham Let. (1871) 37 Seemly begyrt in a red caddiz gyrdl. 1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, ii. iv. 79 Wilt thou rob this Leatherne Ierkin..Puke stocking, Caddice garter. 1675Bk. of Rates 293 Caddas or cruel ribbon.
†c. Short for caddis ribbon: A worsted tape or binding, used for garters, etc. Obs.
1580Lyly Euphues (1868) 220 The country dame girdeth herselfe as straight in the waste with a course caddis, as the Madame of the court with a silke riband. 1584B. R. Herodotus 79 Stitching to the inside of their vesture a tape or caddesse to gird their apparell. 1611Shakes. Wint. T. iv. iv. 208 Hee hath Ribbons..Points..Inckles, Caddysses. a1664Quarles Sheph. Orac. viii, Surely I was..constrained to sell Cadice and inkle. 1691Lond. Gaz. No. 2698/4 A..blue Saddle-Cloth bound with Green and White Caddis. 1739Desaguliers in Phil. Trans. XLI. 190 Cadis, or a kind of Worsted Tape. 1751S. Whatley Eng. Gaz. Sturbridge (Camb.), All sorts of tapes, cadduces, and the like wares from Manchester. [1822–76Nares, Caddis, a kind of ferret or worsted lace.]
†3. A kind of stuff; perh. of worsted (or ? silk).
1536Inv. Kilburn Nunnery Middlesex in Monast. Anglicanum III. 424/1 One Carpet of Cadys for the table xij d. 1552Berksh. Ch. Goods 28 Ane other vestyment of grene caddes, a vestyment of Redd caddis. 1552Inv. Ch. Surrey 54 Item a cope of blew cades. 1552–3Inv. Ch. Goods Staffs. in Ann. Diocese Lichfield IV. 48 One vestement of cadyas, iiij albes. [1876Rock Text. Fabr. iv. 31.]
b. A coarse cheap serge. [Mod.F. cadis.] (The first quot. is of doubtful meaning.) Cf. caddow2.
1579Lyly Euphues 79 In steede of silkes I will weare sackcloth: for Owches and Bracelettes, Leere and Caddys. 1714Fr. Bk. of Rates 38 Cadis-Stuff per 100 Weight. 1755Johnson Caddis..this word is used in Erse for the variegated cloaths of the Highlanders. 1862Wraxall Hugo's Miserables (1877) i. iv. 20 Who had acquired {pstlg}80000 by manufacturing coarse clothes, serges, and caddis. 1887J. H. Nodal in Let., ‘Caddies is still used in Bolton for a special make of sheets and quilts.’ [Cf. caddow2 c 1860.]
▪ II. caddis2, caddice|ˈkædɪs|
Also 7 cadice, cados, 7–8 cadis.
[Of uncertain origin: see the equivalent cad4; parallel forms are dial. cadew, caddy (pl. caddies), perh. a false singular, from caddi-s (used as sing. and pl. by Walton); possibly a genuine dim. of cad: the relations of the forms have not been made out.]
1. The larva of the May-fly and other species of Phryganea, which lives in water, and forms for itself a curious cylindrical case of hollow stems, small stones, etc.; it is used as a bait by anglers.
1651T. Barker Art of Angling (1653) 9 Gentles, Paste or Cadice which we call Cod-bait. 1653Walton Angler 91 The May flie..is bred of the Cod-worm or Caddis. Ibid. 235, I have held you too long about these caddis. 1855Kingsley Glaucus (1878) 207 Those caddises, which crawl on the bottom of the stiller waters, enclosed, all save the head and legs, in a tube of sand or pebbles. 1875‘Stonehenge’ Brit. Sports i. v. iii. §12 Caddies, caterpillars and gentles.
2. Comb. caddis-bait, caddis-worm = prec.; caddis-fly, a Phryganea, as the May-fly.
1622Peacham Compl. Gentl. xxi. (1634) 253 Other wormes as the Bobbe, Cadis-worme, Canker, or such like. 1658Rowland Mouffet's Theat. Ins. 943 The great variety of those little Cados worms whereof they come. 1787Best Angling (ed. 2) 116 The Cadis-Fly..is a large four-winged fly, of a buff-colour. 1833Proc. Berw. Nat. Club I. No. 1. 20 Caddis bait, which is the larva of different species of phryganea. 1847Carpenter Zool. §682 Caddice-flies..are very numerous in Britain; no fewer than 190 species having been described. 1863Kingsley Water-bab. iii. 90 The caddis-baits in that pool. 1875Brande & Cox Dict. Science, &c. I. 341 Different species of the Caddice-worm protect themselves by means of different materials. |