cavendish

3 definitions found

cavendish - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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.
        [1913 Webster]

cavendish - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Cavendish
      n 1: 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
           ]

cavendish - U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :

  Cavendish, VT
    Zip code(s): 05142