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Cav·en·dish
/ˈkævən(ˌ)dɪʃ/
板煙
From:
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Cav·en·dish
n.
Leaf
tobacco
softened
,
sweetened
,
and
pressed
into
plugs
or
cakes
.
Cut cavendish
,
the
plugs
cut
into
long
shreds
for
smoking
.
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From:
WordNet (r) 2.0
Cavendish
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) [
syn
:
Henry Cavendish
]
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