英文英文字典
英文英文字典
古腾堡计划中的在线英语-英语词典
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Whiffle
(v. i.)
To change from one opinion or course to another; to use
evasions; to prevaricate; to be fickle.
Whiffle
(v. t.)
To disperse with, or as with, a whiff, or puff; to
scatter.
Whiffle
(v. t.)
To wave or shake quickly; to cause to whiffle.
Whiffle
(n.)
A fife or small flute.
Whiffled
(imp. & p. p.)
of Whiffle
Whiffler
(n.)
One who whiffles, or frequently changes his opinion or
course; one who uses shifts and evasions in argument; hence, a trifler.
Whiffler
(n.)
One who plays on a whiffle; a fifer or piper.
Whiffler
(n.)
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.
Whiffler
(n.)
The golden-eye.
Whiffletree
(n.)
Same as Whippletree.
Whiffling
(p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Whiffle
Whig
(n.)
Acidulated whey, sometimes mixed with buttermilk and sweet
herbs, used as a cooling beverage.
Whig
(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 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superseded Whig in English politics.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.
Whig
(n.)
A friend and supporter of the American Revolution; -- opposed
to Tory, and Royalist.
Whig
(n.)
One of the political party in the United States from about
1829 to 1856, opposed in politics to the Democratic party.
Whig
(a.)
Of or pertaining to the Whigs.
Whiggamore
(n.)
A Whig; -- a cant term applied in contempt to Scotch
Presbyterians.
Whiggarchy
(n.)
Government by Whigs.
Whiggery
(n.)
The principles or practices of the Whigs; Whiggism.
Whiggish
(a.)
Of or pertaining to Whigs; partaking of, or characterized
by, the principles of Whigs.