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Start of a smoke signal
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wisp
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Word definitions for wisp in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wisp \Wisp\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wisped ; p. pr. & vb. n. Wisping .] To brush or dress, an with a wisp. To rumple. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 14c., "handful or bundle of hay, grass, etc.," used for burning or cleaning or as a cushion; perhaps from an unrecorded Old English word, cognate with Norwegian and Swedish visp "wisp," of unknown origin; sometimes said to be connected with whisk ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Wisp or WISP may refer to: In mythology and fiction: Will-o'-the-wisp , a floating ball of light in folklore Will o' the Wisp (comics) , a comic book supervillain in the Marvel Universe Peggy, the Will O' the Wisp , a 1917 drama film directed by Tod Browning ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a small tuft or lock; "wisps of hair" a small person; "a mere wisp of a girl" a small bundle of straw or hay a flock of snipe
Usage examples of wisp.
Richard, with the wisp of hair pasted across baldness common to every senior French functionary, alopecia being the natural consequence of chicanery, was even better.
A bleak, copper-colored landscape set against a deep-pink sky through which wisps of anhydrous white clouds drifted.
Mevrouw Blom had just returned from a shopping expedition the sight of her, dripping water from a plastic mac, and with wisps of damp hair hanging forlornly from her headscarf, was almost more than Augusta could bear.
The hail and buffeting became even worse for several moments, then they broke into misty clear air at twelve hundred feet and it subsided, wisps of thin cloud and flakes of snow bursting past them, the frozen Baltic below.
He had followed the advice of a Melanesian boy and every night he had applied wisps of kunai grass soaked in the urine of the Cuscus or Coconut Possum.
Persian queen as on the poorest peasant maiden, the first hairs to appear as an infant, guardians of her sweet, female scent her entire life, the last wisps to remain on her head in her feeble dotage, defying time and space.
He sucked in a deep gulp of the scented air, conscious of a wisp of an idea crouching forlornly in the dregs of his brain.
He had the bottle and the glasses ready when the tall, fragile young man seeped in through the doorway of his day cabin, looking like a wisp of ectoplasm decked out in Survey Service uniform.
He was an elderly, grave man with wisps of silvery hair fungating from everywhere.
Mostly the stonemass is caught as billows, but there are pillars that corkscrew faintly and become wisps at their peak, where leaks of smokestone have gusted in very still air.
Little wisps of steam gusted from the nose ring, and Toro threw back its head.
In resentful unfolding gusts the cloud pushes its innards out and Judah sees movement inside, not wind-driven or random, and arms, supplicant, emerge from the obscurity and a man comes out, greyed by wisps that cling to him and become silicon chitin, crusting him as he falls, and behind is another belching of mist and another figure pushes through smokestone visibly harder now, wading through dough, scabbed with it, labouring under matter.
From time to time they passed lack, empty passageways tunneling through the stone and isolated doors, closed and latched, but Wisp did not slow.
Wisps of snow perpetually blew from lodgements, streaming out on the wind like smoke from candles newly extinguished.
There was nothing unusual to be seen up there, just the usual clusters of low, domed lodges under wisps of windblown wood smoke.