Obs. A familiar or contemptuous abbreviation of CAVALIER. (Cf. CAB sb.2, CAVE sb.2) Hence Cavish a.

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1645.  Relat. Defeat to Skellum Greenvile, 4 (D.). In the meane while, both from the Ships and Forts, on that side the Towne were at the least sixty great Gunnes shot off, which beat up the dirt bravely about the Cavies eares.

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1650.  A. B., Mutat. Polemo, 15. The Cavies being at that time ready to turn any thing, except Roundhead, for some money to be chirpingly drunk.

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1664.  A. Brome, Poems, 124. The Roundheads and Caveys no more shall be named.

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1650.  A. B., Mutat. Polemo, 29. The Cavish Remora’s of this Nation shall have their bellies-full of rebelling and jarres.

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