音标:[hwiɡ] ;
n.
【英国历史】辉格党(今自由党前身)党员
[美国英语](独立战争时期)辉格党(今共和党前身)党员
[美国英语]共和党党员
(18世纪)苏格兰长老会教徒
(英国)自由党保守分子
主张经济自由放任的人
adj.
辉格党的
由辉格党人组成的
支持辉格党的
短语:
catch the Whigs bathing and walk away with their clothes
开始执行其他政党的政策

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学英语单词
airway beacon
aside from
Atriocomm
bantamweights
be at one's trick
bileman
borees
boudica
brighs
calocarpus
cathode power lead
certificate of amount owing
Chinese tallowtree seed oil
co-contractors
comparativists
compass cards
concentric tube
conoid
cotton fusarium wilt
counterassert
cowhiding
dohrmann
dorsiventrally
drink somebody under the table
Edward Franklin Albeen
exponential smoothing device
fabrication stage
flavylium ion
for centuries
fractocumulus
gas spout
general strength wire
genus actiniopteriss
genus botrychiums
genus Cracticus
goldsmith
gonadectomies
granite staters
Greek number
hardcore
hydromyelitis
infraspinatous
intrathoracic
Jacintha
key option
lapping fixture
lipo-deprivation
lossages
low airburst
lumped fuel
maffioso
massiveness
mess about with
Natrix maura
nigella
noise weighting curve
opalescent chrysolite
optical track
over-hunting
parachute release
partial reflectors
petty cabotage
phosphoretted
plesiochronous satellite link
porcelain filtering funnel
Poretta
Port Adelaide
positive carry
post up a ledger
pteroma
ranica
re-impositions
remops
royalised
rug? vaginales
Saibai I.
saltado
sand-storage pit
sathrophytia
satin cashmere
Saussurea frondosa
secondary subroutine
self oscillation
sky typing
social constraint
spits at
stem flow
sustained g
switch loss
tool setter
tractor drawn polydisk plow
train braking
transillumination of skull
Tsarskoye Selo
Tuberales
ultraviolet microspectrophotometry
unclaimed corpse
unflattered
vernier control
vision signal detector
wituper
yellow rice(or millet)wine