Crossword clues for wisp
wisp
- Tiny amount of smoke
- Small bit
- Bit of hair
- Thin puff of smoke
- Merest trace
- Small fragment
- Slender trace
- Thin trail of smoke
- Thin puff
- Thin curl of smoke
- Thin bit of smoke
- Smidgen of smoke
- Slender smoke
- Thin smoke trail
- Streak of smoke
- Curl of a cloud
- Bit of a smoke screen?
- Will-o'-the- --
- Trace, as of smoke
- Tiny bit of hair
- Thin streak, as of smoke
- Thin smoke streak
- Thin lock
- Tendril of smoke
- Swirl of smoke
- Streaky emanation
- Strand, as of hair
- Something insubstantial
- Smoky thread
- Small, thin child
- Small, frail person
- Small lock of hair
- Small bundle of straw
- Slight tuft
- Paltry puff
- Mere indication
- Loose hair strand
- Insubstantial lock
- Fleeting puff
- Finger of smoke
- Filmy strand
- Faint puff
- Delicate strand
- Curl of smoke
- Cloud bit
- Cigar emanation
- Cig emanation
- Bit of hay
- Barely noticeable amount
- Handful of hay
- Bit of smoke or hair
- Tuft
- Puff of smoke
- Thin strand
- Cirrus cloud formation
- Trace of smoke
- Slender one
- Skinny one
- Smoke trace
- Part of a smoke screen?
- Thin streak of smoke
- Tenuous fragment
- Thin lock of hair
- Fleeting trace
- Bit of a shock?
- Miniature cloud
- Small handful
- Delicate lock of hair
- Bit of a cloud
- Thin fragment
- Slender amount
- Faint cloud
- Flimsy lock
- Faint trace, as of smoke
- A small tuft or lock
- A small person
- A small bundle of straw or hay
- A flock of snipe
- Tenuous strip
- Tendril; strand
- Mere handful
- Something frail
- Fragment or shred
- Strand; tendril
- Smoke curl
- Stray strand
- Handful of straw
- Thin tuft
- Thready streak
- Will-o'-the-___
- Frail thing
- Filmy piece
- Start of a smoke signal
- Waster intently seeking pub heads for Strand
- Small tuft of hair
- Piece of straw is perhaps thus described
- Thin person’s desire to get parking for husband
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.
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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A small bundle, as of straw or other like substance.
In a small basket, on a wisp of hay.
--Dryden. A whisk, or small broom.
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A Will-o'-the-wisp; an ignis fatuus.
The wisp that flickers where no foot can tread.
--Tennyson.
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 or with Middle Low German and Middle Dutch wispel "a measure of grain." Meaning "thin, filmy portion" first attested 1836.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A small bundle, as of straw or other like substance; any slender, flexible structure or group. 2 A whisk, or small broom. 3 A will o' the wisp, or ignis fatuus. vb. 1 To brush or dress, as with a wisp. 2 (context UK dialect English) To rumple. 3 (context intransitive English) To produce a wisp, as of smoke.
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
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
- Willo the Wisp, a British cartoon series originally produced in 1981
- Will-o'-wisp (Dungeons & Dragons), a malevolent entity that makes its home in swamps and bogs
- Night wisp, a fictional creature in the Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind
- Wisp, the birth name of a fictional young orphan girl who would later become known as Rainbow Brite
- Wisp is one of the eight elemental spirits featured in the Mana series, representing the light element
- Wisp is a nature spirit associated with the Night Elf race in the Warcraft series.
- Wisp is a monster in the MMORPG Tibia (video game) that looks like a magical light.
- Wisp (Sonic), the alien race in Sonic Colors
- The hero Io in Dota 2 is a guardian wisp.
As a proper noun:
- WISP (AM), a radio station (1570 AM) licensed to Doylestown, Pennsylvania, United States
- Wisp Ski Resort, in western Maryland
- Wisp (musician), an electronic artist signed to Rephlex Records
As an acronym:
- WFC3 Infrared Spectroscopic Parallel (WISP) survey
- Wartime Information Security Program
- Weakly Interacting Sub-eV Particles such as the axion, a hypothetical class of particles
- WNT1 Inducible Signaling Pathway proteins 1, 2 and 3 ( WISP1, WISP2, and WISP3), human genes
- Wireless Internet Service Provider (WISP) is an Internet Service Provider (ISP) with wireless connections. Generally a smaller ISP that takes on the challenge of providing broadband for their community.
- Wireless Identification and Sensing Platform (WISP) is a software-configurable passive UHF RFID tag
- Wireless Information Service Point (WiSP) is a communication technology for distributing any kind of information via Bluetooth
- Wang Interchange Source Processor (WISP) is a software migration toolkit
WISP (1570 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a religious format. Licensed to Doylestown, Pennsylvania, USA. The station is currently owned by Holy Spirit Radio Foundation, Inc.
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.