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.]
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   1. A small bundle, as of straw or other like substance.
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            In a small basket, on a wisp of hay.  --Dryden.
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   2. A whisk, or small broom.
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   3. A Will-o'-the-wisp; an ignis fatuus.
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            The wisp that flickers where no foot can tread.
                                                  --Tennyson.
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	Wisp \Wisp\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wisped; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Wisping.]
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   1. To brush or dress, an with a wisp.
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   2. To rumple. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.
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	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

	

	72 Moby Thesaurus words for "wisp":
   autoluminescence, bantam, banty, batch, bioluminescence, bunch,
   button, cathode luminescence, chemicoluminescence,
   chemiluminescence, chit, clump, cluster, copse, corposant, crop,
   crystalloluminescence, diminutive, double corposant,
   electroluminescence, fata morgana, featherweight, fingerling,
   fluorescence, fox fire, group, grouping, groupment, grove, hassock,
   ignis fatuus, knot, lightweight, lot, luciferase, luciferin,
   luminescence, luminophor, marshfire, mess, mini, minikin, minnow,
   minny, mouse, noctiluscence, nubbin, peewee, phosphor,
   phosphorescence, photoluminescence, pony, radioluminescence, runt,
   shock, shrimp, slew, slip, small fry, snip, snippet, stook,
   thermoluminescence, thicket, tit, tribofluorescence,
   triboluminescence, tribophosphorescence, tuft, tussock, wart,
   witch fire

	

	Wisp

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