cavendish (kavendish)

[From the proper name Cavendish.] Tobacco which has been softened, pre ed into quadrangular cakes, and sweetened with syrup or mola es, for chewing or smoking. Also called negro - head.- Cut cavendish, cavendish tobacco cut into small shreds. cave-pika (kāv ́pikā), n. A kind of pika or calling-hare, fo il remains of which are found in bone-caves. See Lagomys. caver1 (kā'ver), n. [Uncertain.] 1. A person stealing ore from the mines in Derby shire, England, and punishable in the barmote or miners' court.-2. An officer belonging to the Derby shire mines. caver2, kaver (kav'er), n. A gentle breeze. [West coast of Scotland.] cavern (kav'ern), n. [= F. caverne = Pr. Sp. Pg. It. cavern a, Where wilt thou find a cavern dark enough To mask thy monstrous visage? Shak., J. C., ii. 1. The oracular caverns of darkne . Long fellow, Evangeline, ii. 3. cavern (kav'ern), v. t. [ Emerson, Considerations by the Way. cavern alt (kav'er-nal), a. Cavernous. Faber. [ -al .] IMG:content-3327.png:[blocks in formation] 2. Inhabiting or found in a cavern: as, “cav ern'd hermit," Pope, E ay on Man, iv. 42; “ caverned gems," Hemans, Tale the Fourteenth Century.