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  1. whig                  
 
To.ry \'to-r-e-, 'to.r-\ n [IrGael to-raidhe pursued man, robber, fr. MIr 
   to-ir pursuit] 1: an Irish papist or royalist outlaw chiefly of the 17th 
   century  obs  2: MARAUDER  3a: a member or supporter of a major British 
   political group of the 18th an d early 19th centuries favoring at first the 
   Stuarts and later royal authority and the established church and seeking to 
   preserve the traditional political structure and defeat parliamentary 
   reform 3b: CONSERVATIVE  4: an American upholding the cause of the British 
   Crown against the support ers of colonial independence during the American 
   Revolution : LOYALIST often not cap  5: an extreme conservative esp. in 
   political and economic principles  - Tory aj