Cavendish

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Cavendish \Cav"en*dish\, n.
     Leaf tobacco softened, sweetened, and pressed into plugs or
     cakes.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     {Cut cavendish}, the plugs cut into long shreds for smoking.


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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Cavendish
       n : British chemist and physicist who established that water is
           a compound of hydrogen and oxygen and who calculated the
           density of the earth (1731-1810) [syn: {Henry Cavendish}]

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:

  Cavendish, VT
    Zip code(s): 05142