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wisp


  4  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Wisp  \Wisp\,  v.  t.  [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  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  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.] 
  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  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  wisp 
  n  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  The  Free  On-line  Dictionary  of  Computing  (13  Mar  01)  [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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