Cavendish
['kæv(ə)ndɪʃ] or ['kævəndɪʃ]
Definition
(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).
Checker: Tessie--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Leaf tobacco softened, sweetened, and pressed into plugs or cakes.
Editor: Warren
Definition
n. tobacco moistened and pressed into quadrangular cakes.
Typist: Willie
Examples
- I had imagined that we were bound for Baker Street, but Holmes stopped the cab at the corner of Cavendish Square. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Getting on The newly married pair, on their arrival in Harley Street, Cavendish Square, London, were received by the Chief Butler. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- He was a member of the Baldwin, the Cavendish, and the Bagatelle card clubs. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Cavendish obtained nitrogen from air by using nitric oxide to remove the oxygen, and found that air consists of about seventy-nine per cent nitrogen and about twenty-one per cent oxygen. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Harley Street, Cavendish Square, was more than aware of Mr and Mrs Merdle. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- At the sa me time other ranks of society are represented in the history of science by Boyle, Cavendish, Lavoisier. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Cavendish had shown, and Dalton himself later prove d, that common air, wherever examined, contains oxygen and nitrogen in fairly co nstant proportions. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
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