TORY

originally an Irish outlaw and robber (from Irish word meaning to pursue for the sake of plunder); term applied to Royalist party at time of Popish Plot, but had acquired a political significance as early as 1654, when it was applied by the principal of Glasgow Univ. to the forces maintaining the cause of Charles II.; as the political counterpart of Whig, the term was used from the time of the Revolution to the Reform Bill of 1832, when Conservative began to take its place. town, on T'verts a, Tver, Ru ia; produces embroidered goods. Pop. 16,000. E.), ancient Tuscania, town, on Marta, Rome, Italy. Pop. 5,000.