Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Cavendish"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Cavendish \Cav"en*dish\, n.
Leaf tobacco softened, sweetened, and pressed into plugs or
cakes.
{Cut cavendish}, the plugs cut into long shreds for smoking.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (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: {Cavendish}, {Henry
Cavendish}]
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