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The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Wiktionary
n. Leaf tobacco softened, sweetened, and pressed into plugs or cakes.
Wikipedia
Cavendish may refer to:
Cavendish is a lunar crater that is located in the southwest part of the Moon, to the southwest of the larger crater Mersenius. It lies between the smaller craters Henry to the west-northwest and de Gasparis to the east-southeast.
The rim of Cavendish is heavily worn and the crater Cavendish E lies across the southwest rim. The smaller Cavendish A is intruding into the northeast rim. On the flood are a pair of low-rimmed craters that are joined at the rims and span most of the central Cavendish crater floor from east to west.
A rille from the Rimae de Gasparis reaches the eastern rim of Cavendish.
Cavendish is an English surname of Norman origin. Notable people with the surname include:
- Ada Cavendish (1839–1895), British actress
- Anthony Cavendish (1927–2013), British intelligence officer
- Camilla Cavendish (born 1968), British journalist
- Lord Charles Cavendish (1704–1783), British nobleman, Whig politician and scientist
- Charles Cavendish (1793–1863), British Liberal politician
- George Cavendish (writer) (c. 1494 – 1562) English writer and biographer of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey
- Henry Cavendish (1731–1810), British physicist, discoverer of hydrogen
- Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1623–1673), English aristocrat, writer, and philosopher
- Mark Cavendish (born 1985), Manx cyclist
- Michael Cavendish (born c. 1565), English composer
- Peregrine Cavendish, 12th Duke of Devonshire (born 1944), British Peer and owner of Pratt's Club
- Lord Richard Cavendish (1752–1781), British MP
- Lord Richard Cavendish (1871–1946), British MP, aristocrat, author, magistrate
- Lucy Cavendish (1841–1925), British pioneer of women's education
- Richard Cavendish (occult writer) (born 1930), British writer on topics dealing with the occult
- Sid Cavendish (1876–1954), English footballer with Southampton and Clapton Orient
- William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland (1738–1809), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- Thomas Cavendish (1564–1593), English Admiral
Usage examples of "cavendish".
The questionnaire and an information sheet about the album were printed up on different-coloured paper stock and record-mailing envelopes were delivered to Cavendish Avenue.
Cavendish scientists invented a more powerful proton-beam device, while in California Ernest Lawrence at Berkeley produced his famous and impressive cyclotron, or atom smasher, as such devices were long excitingly known.
Recall that to Priestley, oxygen was dephlogisticated air, while Cavendish believed that oxygen was water from which all of the phlogiston had been removed.
Later that same day, Deb was still so indignant about the cavalier treatment she had received at the hands of her injured duelist that while watching the minuets at the Assembly Room ball she was seen to openly scowl, a most unladylike expression opinioned the sticklers of Bath society, but to be excused in a Cavendish heiress worth not a guinea less than fifty thousand pounds.
And he did not believe that Merlin would rise from the woods to bring chaos to that hubristic Tower of Babel, the Cavendish Laboratory.
Newton and Boyle from Scheele and Priestley and Henry Cavendish, it still had a long way to go.
At the commencement of this debate Lord John Cavendish had moved, that the address should be recommitted, but it was in the end negatived by two hundred and eighty-eight to one hundred and five.
There is nothing that can compromise him in any way, since it is Miss Howard who has the strychnine, which, after all, is only wanted as a blind to throw suspicion on John Cavendish.
Otherwise both Drake and Cavendish stood as good a chance as the Dutch of coming in contact with the coasts of Australia, and that fifteen years before the arrival of the Dutch in Australasian waters.
Drake and Cavendish we see that the term Java Major is restricted to Java, whereas in the oldest Australasian charts it is extended to Australia.
John Cavendish joined us, and one or two of the servants were standing round in a state of awestricken excitement.
Charles Cavendish into an army encampment on the banks of the Coa river near the fortress of Alineida.
Kravitz received invitations to dinner, including one from Emeraude Cavendish, editor of a fashion magazine, a great goddess of style in New York.
They call it The Cavendish now but every cunt still kens it as Clouds.
They had not entertained largely in Cavendish Square since Lali came, and those invited to Greyhope had a chance to refuse the invitations if they chose.