To beat, to overcome.
1815. If the enemy attack us in our present position, we must whip five to one.—Mass. Spy, Feb. 8.
1824. [The dog] came out, whipped the other dog, and then walked home.—Id., Sept. 29.
1826. I found, on farther inquiry, that the “best” man was understood to be the best fighter, he who had beaten, or, in the Kentucky phrase, had “whipped” all the rest.—T. Flint, ‘Recollections,’ p. 98.
1828–9. See HALF HORSE, HALF ALLIGATOR.
1833. See BOODLE.
1836. Mr. Bell [of Tennessee] said that, if war had resulted from our controversy with France, we should have been whipped severely.—Mr. Garland of Va., House of Repr., April 1: Cong. Globe, p. 258, App.
1838. We had not only to whip the Indians, but we had to run them down, and hunt them up, amid the most impenetrable forests, everglades, morasses, and savannas [in Florida], through which it was almost impossible for any living animal to pass.—Mr. Bynum of North Carolina, the same, Jan. 24: id., p. 76, App.
1838. Three hundred Indian warriors have thought proper to whip, on our soil, two companies of militia.—The Jeffersonian, Albany, June 23, p. 152.
1840. Mr. Alford of Georgia told the Committee how the late President Jackson had “whipped” the U.S. Bank. He said he had no fault to find with the old General for killing the Bank; but he did blame him for his inhumanity in not leaving it alone after it was dead.—House of Repr., June 26: Cong. Globe, p. 488.
1841. I have no predilection for being whipped by a foreign foe; but whipped we certainly shall be one of these days, if a war should come and find us in the defenceless condition in which we now are.—Mr. Monroe of N.Y., House of Repr., Feb. 3: id., p. 286, App.
1841. Mr. Starkweather of Ohio derided the idea of defending Maine, because one Cape Cod fisherman could whip twenty British sailors on the ocean. We had now a hero in the chair [Gen. Harrison]…. Without money and a almost without men he had whipped the British; and yet now it was said we should be whipped to death. No. Americans never were whipped with equal advantages.—The same, March 1: id., p. 187, App.
1848. [Said General Scott,] Sir, give me a column,—a granite column of American regulars, consisting of four or five thousand men,—and I will whip any Mexican army that can be brought into the field, if it should rain Mexicans for a week.—Mr. Clayton of Delaware, U.S. Senate, Jan. 12: id., p. 161.
1852. I felt as though I could whip all the mobs in Missouri.—Ezra T. Benson, at the Mormon Tabernacle, Aug. 28: ‘Journal of Discourses,’ vi. 263.
1854. Remember what Brother Cam said this morning; if he is whipped, he don’t stay whipped. You cannot discourage a real “Mormon.”—J. M. Grant, the same, Oct. 7: id., ii. 72.
1857. I never got so drunk, but once, but what I could whip any man I ever saw, except brother Brigham.—H. C. Kimball at the Bowery, Salt Lake City, July 12: id., v. 30–1.
1857. I do not know whether the inhabitants of Parowan intended to whip a regiment of dragoons, or not: but it is certain they are wide awake, and are not going to be taken by surprise.—George A. Smith, the same, Sept. 13: id., v. 223.
1861. I suppose you will undertake to whip freemen into loving such brethren as that.—Mr. Toombs of Georgia, U.S. Senate: O. J. Victor, ‘The History … of the Southern Rebellion,’ i. 178.
1861. You may whip us, but we will not stay whipped. We will rise again and again to vindicate our rights and liberty, and to throw off your oppressive and accursed yoke, and we will never cease the strife until our whole white race is extinguished, and our fair land given over to desolation.—Mr. Iverson’s Farewell to the Senate: id., i. 297.
1878. My dog can whip any dog in town, an’ I can whip the owner.—J. H. Beadle, ‘Western Wilds,’ p. 185.
1878. General Lee was impressed with the idea that by attacking the Federals he could whip them in detail.—Gen. Longstreet in ‘Southern Hist. Soc. Papers,’ v. 61.
