Hypertext Webster Gateway: "wisp"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Wisp \Wisp\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Wisped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Wisping}.]
1. To brush or dress, an with a wisp.
2. To rumple. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Wisp \Wisp\, n. [OE. wisp, wips; probably akin to D. & G. wisch,
Icel. visk, and perhaps to L. virga a twig, rod. Cf. {Verge}
a rod, {Whisk}, n.]
1. A small bundle, as of straw or other like substance.
In a small basket, on a wisp of hay. --Dryden.
2. A whisk, or small broom.
3. A Will-o'-the-wisp; an ignis fatuus.
The wisp that flickers where no foot can tread.
--Tennyson.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
wisp
n 1: a small tuft or lock; "wisps of hair"
2: a small person; "a mere wisp of a girl"
3: a small bundle of straw or hay
4: a flock of snipe
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