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cavendish|ˈkævəndɪʃ|
[see quot. 1844.]
1. Tobacco softened and pressed into solid cakes.
1839(in a file of prices of Messrs. Grant, Chambers, & Co., London, of this date. It is not in their circular of 1824). 1843Hints to Freshmen (Oxford) 8 He has smoked Cavendish tobacco under the steadfast impression that it was the mildest Turkey. 1844Anstie in Rep. Comm. (Ho. of Commons) Tobacco Trade Q. 33 ‘Cavendish’ is a species of tobacco reckoned by the Excise under the general denomination of Roll.. I suppose the name is taken from the name of the maker in America. I know of no other reason for the name. 1879F. Harrison Choice Bks. (1886) 70 Men..read it..daily, just as they smoke cavendish. 1886Pall Mall G. 19 June 6/1 The cakes are..submitted to hydraulic pressure, and in the end a substance is obtained of great solidity, and which cuts like black marble. This is the cavendish which army men, artists, and others affect.
2. Assumed name of the author (H. Jones) of a treatise on Whist (1862); often used allusively.
1878H. H. Gibbs in B. Price Pract. Pol. Econ., Like a man having his Cavendish at his fingers' ends, who sits down to play a rubber without seeing his cards. |