† caddessecadessen.
? Obsolete.
= caddow n.1 a jackdaw.
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1565–73 T. Cooper Thesaurus Monedula, a chough, a daw, a cadesse.
1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 79 The Caddesse was first called Monedula.
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iv. 70 This that prat' pye cadesse labored too trumpet in eeche place.
?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xvi. 541 As a falcon frays A flock of stares or caddesses.
1655 T. Moffett & C. Bennet Healths Improvem. xi. 102 The Cadesse or Jac-daw.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 248/1 The Jack Daw, or Daw, is called a Caddesse or Choff.
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