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1. Whig
   [n] - urged social reform in 19th century England 2. [n] - a supporter of the American Revolution 3. [n] - a member of the Whig Party in the United States in pre-Civil-War times
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2. Whig
   Whig noun [ See Whey .] Acidulated whey, sometimes mixed with buttermilk and sweet herbs, used as a cooling beverage. [ Obsolete or Prov. Eng.]
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3. Whig
   Whig noun [ 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 t...
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4. Whig
   Whig adjective Of or pertaining to the Whigs.
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5. Whig
   noun a member of the political party that urged social reform in 18th and 19th century England; was the opposition party to the Tories
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6. Whig
   • (n.) A friend and supporter of the American Revolution; -- opposed to Tory, and Royalist. • (n.) 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...
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7. whig
   
   • urged social reform in 19th century England
   • a supporter of the American Revolution
   • a member of the Whig Party in the United States in pre-Civil-War times
   
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8. Whig
   Whig, English political party. The name, originally a term of abuse first used for Scottish Presbyterians in the 17th cent., seems to have been a shortened form of whiggamor [cattle driver]. It was applied (c.1679) to the English opponents of the succession of the Roman Catholic duke of York (later ...
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9. Whig
   Whig was a nickname applied to the Covenanters in Scotland and later generally to the Presbyterian party in Scotland and the opponents of the monarchy in England. In the early 19th century the term was replaced with ' liberal'.
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10. Whig
    The name given to a relatively progressive political group in the British Parliament in the 18th century, whose successors by the middle of the 19th had become the Liberal Party.
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11. Whig
    (British political party) The `Whigs` were a party in the Parliament of England, Parliament of Great Britain, and Parliament of the United Kingdom, who contested power with the rival Tories from the 1680s to the 1850s. The Whigs` origin lay in constitutional monarchism and opposition to absol...
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