cavendish
Speech parts
1. cavendish - Noun
2. Cavendish - Proper noun
Meaning
Leaf tobacco softened, sweetened, and pressed into plugs or cakes.
Source: Webster's dictionarySynonyms
Phrases with the word
Examples
Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.
The glorious years of discovery in radio astronomy in the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge were dominated by the personality of Martin Ryle.
I am a fellow commoner at Lucy Cavendish College. My husband used to be a lecturer at Leeds University, and we lived in Yorkshire for 11 years. When he gave up his job, we realised we could live wherever we liked.
Allen Andrews (2000) Kings of England and Scotland, Marshall Cavendish, p. 90 At the time of his last stand against the Lancastrians, Richard was a widower without a legitimate son.
According to current sources, a deadly form of Panama disease is infecting Cavendish.
A Minute or First Draught of the Optiques (Harley MS 3360; Molesworth published only the dedication to Cavendish and the conclusion in EW VII, pp. 467–471) * 1646.