Category:Wisp

Wisp, n. Etym: [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.

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.