whisk

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To move or cause to move with quick light sweeping motions: whisked crumbs off the table; whisked the children away.
2. v. To whip (eggs or cream).
3. v. To move lightly, nimbly, and rapidly.
4. n. A quick light sweeping motion.
5. n. A whiskbroom.
6. n. A small bunch, as of twigs or hair, attached to a handle and used in brushing.
7. n. A kitchen utensil, usually in the form of stiff, thin wire loops attached to a handle, used for whipping foodstuffs.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A wisp or small bunch, as of grass, hair, or straw; specifically, such a wisp used as a brush, broom, or besom, and especially in modern usage one made of the ripened panicle of broom-corn (see broom-corn and Sorghum), used for brushing the dust off clothes, etc.
2. n. An instrument used for whisking, agitating, or beating certain articles, such as cream or eggs.
3. n. A coopers' plane for leveling the chimes of casks.
4. n. A neckerchief worn by women in the seventeenth century. Also called falling-whisk, apparently in distinction from the ruff.
5. n. A brief, rapid sweeping motion as of something light; a sudden stroke, whiff, puff, or gale.
6. n. A servant.
7. n. An impertinent follow.
8. To sweepor brush with a light, rapid motion: as, to whisk the dust from a table.
9. To agitate or mix with a light, rapid motion; beat: as, to whisk eggs.
10. To move with a quick, sweeping motion or flourish; move briskly.
11. To flourish about.
12. To carry suddenly and rapidly; whirl.
13. To move with a quick, sweeping motion; move nimbly and swiftly: as, to whisk away.
14. n. The game of whist.

Wiktionary

1. n. A quick, light sweeping motion.
2. n. A kitchen utensil, made from stiff wire loops fixed to a handle, used for whipping (or a mechanical device with the same function).
3. n. A bunch of twigs or hair etc, used as a brush.
4. n. A small handheld broom with a small (or no) handle.
5. v. transitive To move something with quick light sweeping motions.
6. v. transitive In cooking, to whip e.g. eggs or cream.
7. v. transitive To move something rapidly and with no warning.
8. v. intransitive To move lightly and nimbly.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. obsolete A game at cards; whist.
2. n. The act of whisking; a rapid, sweeping motion, as of something light; a sudden motion or quick puff.
3. n. A small bunch of grass, straw, twigs, hair, or the like, used for a brush; hence, a brush or small besom, as of broom corn.
4. n. A small culinary instrument made of wire, or the like, for whisking or beating eggs, cream, etc.
5. n. A kind of cape, forming part of a woman's dress.
6. n. Prov. Eng. An impertinent fellow.
7. n. A plane used by coopers for evening chines.
8. v. To sweep, brush, or agitate, with a light, rapid motion
9. v. To move with a quick, sweeping motion.
10. v. To move nimbly at with velocity; to make a sudden agile movement.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. brush or wipe off lightly
2. n. a small short-handled broom used to brush clothes
3. v. move somewhere quickly
4. v. move quickly and nimbly
5. v. whip with or as if with a wire whisk
6. n. a mixer incorporating a coil of wires; used for whipping eggs or cream