ppl. a. [f. WHIP v. + -ED1.]
1. Needlework. (See WHIP v. 18.)
a. 1548. Hall, Chron., Hen. VIII., 207 b. Frettes of whipped gold or damaske very riche.
1716. Gay, Trivia, II. 339. In half-whipt Muslin Needles useless lye.
† 2. (See quot.) Obs. nonce-use.
1562. V. Leigh, Survey. (1588), O iij. I call it … the whipped line, because I haue formed it … like a little whipcorde.
1619. H. Lyte, Art of Tens, 20. In the table on the left hand of the whipped line.
b. Bound with cord closely wound round: see WHIP v. 17.
1886. J. H. Keene, Fishing Tackle, 159. Twisting a hackle round the shank of a whipped hook.
3. Confectionery, etc. Beaten into a froth: see WHIP v. 7. Hence in figurative expressions denoting something ‘frothy,’ flimsy or unsubstantial.
1673. Dryden, Marr. à la Mode, IV. iii. The dull French Poetry,… so thin, that it is the very Leaf-gold of Wit, the very Wafers and whip’d Cream of sense.
1691. Shadwell, Scourers, II. i. To make clouted cream, and whipt Sillabubs.
1725. Fam. Dict., s.v. Sugar, The White of a whipt Egg.
1748. Richardson, Clarissa, lxxxv. VII. 117. To distinguish the froth and whipt-syllabub in them [sc. letters] from the cream.
1781. Cowper, Table-T., 551. Summoning the Muse to such a theme, The fruit of all her labour is whipped cream.
1828. Scott, Jrnl., 23 April, in Lockhart. Who cares for the whipp’d cream of London society?
1846. Soyer, Cookery, 209. Add a gill of whipped cream.
4. Beaten with or as with a whip; scourged, flogged, lashed.
1713. Guardian, No. 8, ¶ 4. Saying, That it became not the Condition of a whipt Rascal to travel on Horseback.
1842. Borrow, Bible in Spain, xiv. 138. The two nationals, who sneaked away like whipped hounds.
1842. Congr. Globe, 29 Jan., 183/2. A whipped cur was ever the most fawning dog.
b. Farriery. Of a horse: see quot.
1737. Bracken, Farriery Impr. (1757), Pref. p. xi. You shall hear many a Horse praised for being a thorow-winded one, and a brave whipt-horse. Ibid., II. 122. He is a good whip’d Horse, that is, he will answer the Whip well.
5. Fencing. (See WHIP v. 4.)
1771. Lonnergan, Fencer’s Guide, 90. If I whip along your Tierce-side, parry round with a whipped Quarte.
6. With up: Made up artificially, factitious.
1900. Daily News, 8 Feb., 3/4. The recent agitation was a whipped-up thing.
1902. J. H. Rose, Napoleon I, I. xii. 274. His keen instinct for reality, which led him to scorn such whipped-up creeds as Robespierre’s Supreme Being.
¶ 7. Used for WHIP-.
1680. Lond. Gaz., No. 1561/4. Two Mares, one of them … whipt Tail’d, and Grizled.
1688. R. Holme, Armoury, III. iii. 94/2. Little round holes whipt-stitched about.
