obs. form of CACIQUE. Also, a name of the Mocking Bird of Guiana.
1825. Waterton, Wand. S. Amer., II. (1887), 167. The Cassique is gregarious … he goes by no other name than that of mocking-bird amongst the colonists.
1826. Syd. Smith, Wks. (1859), II. 78. The cassique, in size, is larger than the starling; he courts the society of man.
