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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Wisp \Wisp\, noun [OE. wisp, wips; probably akin to D. & G. wisch, Icel. visk, and perhaps to L. virga a twig, rod. Cf. {Verge} a rod, {Whisk}, noun]
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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Wisp \Wisp\, verb (used with an object) [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 WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
wisp
noun
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
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
Wisp ["An Experiment with a Self-Compiling Compiler for a Simple List-Processing Language", M.V. Wilkes, Ann Rev Automatic Programming 4:1-48. (1964)].
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