Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.

Source : WordNet®

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}]