Cavendish, Henry Cavendish
(noun) 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)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Cavendish
A surname.
Cavendish (countable and uncountable, plural Cavendishes)
(countable) A Cavendish banana.
(uncountable) Alternative form of cavendish (“type of tobacco”)
Possibly from the name of the original manufacturer.
cavendish (uncountable)
Leaf tobacco softened, sweetened, and pressed into plugs or cakes.
Source: Wiktionary
Cav"en*dish, n.
Definition: Leaf tobacco softened, sweetened, and pressed into plugs or cakes. Cut cavendish, the plugs cut into long shreds for smoking.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
22 December 2024
(noun) (plural) spectacles that are darkened or polarized to protect the eyes from the glare of the sun; “he was wearing a pair of mirrored shades”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
