? Obs. = CADDOW, a jackdaw.
1565–73. Cooper, Thesaurus, Monedula, a chough, a daw, a cadesse.
1567. Maplet, Gr. Forest, 79. The Caddesse was first called Monedula.
1583. Stanyhurst, Æneis, IV. (Arb.), 101. This that prat’pye cadesse labored too trumpet in eeche place.
c. 1612. Chapman, Iliad, XVI. 541. As a Faulcon frayes A flocke of Stares or Caddesses.
1655. Moufet & Bennet, Health’s Improv. (1746), 187. The Cadesse or Jack-daw.
1688. R. Holme, Armoury, II. 248/1. The Jack Daw, or Daw, is called a Caddesse or Choff.
