Whig and Tory.—The bogs of Ireland yielded refuge to Popish outlaws, who were called Tories as being hunted men ..
... same time the name of Whig for those who opposed claims of absolute authority ln Church and State. Whig was originally a name of contempt given by Episcopalians to Presbyterian Dissenters—a scoff at the sourness of the Precisian—Whig being the acid liquor ...