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Definition of Whigs

Whig
Whig Whig, n. [See Whey.] Acidulated whey, sometimes mixed with buttermilk and sweet herbs, used as a cooling beverage. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
Whig
Whig Whig, n. [Said to be from whiggam, a term used in Scotland in driving horses, whiggamore one who drives horses (a term applied to some western Scotchmen), contracted to whig. In 1648, a party of these people marched to Edinburgh to oppose the king and the duke of Hamilton (the Whiggamore raid), and hence the name of Whig was given to the party opposed to the court. Cf. Scot. whig to go quickly.] 1. (Eng. Politics) One of a political party which grew up in England in the seventeenth century, in the reigns of Charles I. and II., when great contests existed respecting the royal prerogatives and the rights of the people. Those who supported the king in his high claims were called Tories, and the advocates of popular rights, of parliamentary power over the crown, and of toleration to Dissenters, were, after 1679, called Whigs. The terms Liberal and Radical have now generally superseded Whig in English politics. See the note under Tory. 2. (Amer. Hist.) (a) A friend and supporter of the American Revolution; -- opposed to Tory, and Royalist. (b) One of the political party in the United States from about 1829 to 1856, opposed in politics to the Democratic party.
Whig
Whig Whig, a. Of or pertaining to the Whigs.

Meaning of Whigs from wikipedia

- 1848 Whig National Convention. The Whigs nominated Millard Fillmore of New York, a pro-Clay Northerner, for vice president. Anti-slavery Northern Whigs disaffected...
- Kingdom. Between the 1680s and the 1850s, the Whigs contested power with their rivals, the Tories. The Whigs became the Liberal Party when the faction merged...
- British Whig party Radical Whigs, a faction of British Whigs ****ociated with the American Revolution Patriot Whigs or Patriot Party, a Whig faction A...
- The Afghan Whigs ever rehe****d was a cover of The Temptations' "Psychedelic Shack." Dulli later described the intent behind The Afghan Whigs was to exist...
- the term "Whig history" in his short but influential book The Whig Interpretation of History (1931). It takes its name from the British Whigs, advocates...
- The Rockingham Whigs (or Rockinghamites) in 18th-century British politics were a faction of the Whigs led by Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of...
- alliance. Whigs felt confident that Clay could duplicate Harrison's landslide victory of 1840 against any opposition candidate. Southern Whigs feared that...
- movement Patriot (American Revolution) Patriot Whigs Philosophic Whigs Political radicalism Radical movement Whig (disambiguation) Robert Middlekauff (2005)...
- seventeen other Whigs joined with the Tory Party in attacks against the ministry. By the mid-1730s, there were over one hundred opposition Whigs in the Commons...
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