WISP

n. v.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A small bundle, as of straw or other like substance. In a small basket, on a wisp of hay. Dryden.

2.
n.

A whisk, or small broom.

3.
n.

A Will-o'-the-wisp; an ignis fatuus. The wisp that flickers where no foot can tread. Tennyson.

4.
v.

To brush or dress, an with a wisp.

5.
v.

To rumple. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.


← WISLY W — all words WISPEN →