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Entry 5 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Wisp

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