n.
Leaf tobacco softened, sweetened, and pressed into plugs or cakes.
Cut cavendish, the plugs cut into long shreds for smoking.
Cavendish
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Cavendish (kăv'əndĭsh), pseud. of Henry Jones, 1831-99, English card game expert. Jones studied medicine, practiced in London, and retired in 1868. He became a leading authority on card games and was the first person to formulate a system of playing whist. He was the author of Principles of Whist: Stated and Explained by "Cavendish" (1862) and later wrote books on piquet, écarté, billiards, lawn tennis, and croquet.
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IN BRIEF: 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).
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