WHIG

originally a nickname applied to the Covenanting men of the s.w. of Scotland (probably from whig, ‘sour whey’); after the Restoration, applied generally to the Presb. party in Scotland, and later in England to those suspected of opposition to the king or of Sympathy with the Nonconformists; applied to supporters of the revolution (1688); supplanted by ‘Lisrraw’ at time of Reform Bill. In American politics the term was first applied to the revolutionaries, and later was adopted by the party opposed to the politics of President Jackson. lican (Democratic) Party, founded by Pres. John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay, 1824-25; chief aims were the maintenance of the republican character of the Union, and the building up of independent and Amer. political institutions and civilization. The a ent to the Fugitive Slave Law by Daniel Webster, and the Whig Convention, 1852, broke up the party, which ceased to exist after 1854. Abraham Lincoln grew up in the By. BP. A WHIP SCORPIONS (Pedipalpi, an order of ARACHNID A), small, carnivorous Arachnids, found in the warm regions of both hemispheres, some of which have