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- English Word Whiffing Definition The act of one who, or that which, whiffs.
- English Word Whiffing Definition A mode of fishing with a hand line for pollack, mackerel, and the like.
- English Word Whiffle Definition To waver, or shake, as if moved by gusts of wind; to shift, turn, or veer about.
- English Word Whiffle Definition To change from one opinion or course to another; to use evasions; to prevaricate; to be fickle.
- English Word Whiffle Definition To disperse with, or as with, a whiff, or puff; to scatter.
- English Word Whiffle Definition To wave or shake quickly; to cause to whiffle.
- English Word Whiffle Definition A fife or small flute.
- English Word Whiffled Definition of Whiffle
- English Word Whiffler Definition One who whiffles, or frequently changes his opinion or course; one who uses shifts and evasions in argument; hence, a trifler.
- English Word Whiffler Definition One who plays on a whiffle; a fifer or piper.
- English Word Whiffler Definition An officer who went before procession to clear the way by blowing a horn, or otherwise; hence, any person who marched at the head of a procession; a harbinger.
- English Word Whiffler Definition The golden-eye.
- English Word Whiffletree Definition Same as Whippletree.
- English Word Whiffling Definition of Whiffle
- English Word Whig Definition Acidulated whey, sometimes mixed with buttermilk and sweet herbs, used as a cooling beverage.
- English Word Whig Definition 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 The terms Liberal and Radical have now generally superseded Whig in English politics.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.
- English Word Whig Definition A friend and supporter of the American Revolution; -- opposed to Tory, and Royalist.
- English Word Whig Definition One of the political party in the United States from about 1829 to 1856, opposed in politics to the Democratic party.
- English Word Whig Definition Of or pertaining to the Whigs.
- English Word Whiggamore Definition A Whig; -- a cant term applied in contempt to Scotch Presbyterians.