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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A small bunch or bundle, as of straw, hair, or grass.
  2. n. One that is thin, frail, or slight.
  3. n. A thin or faint streak or fragment, as of smoke or clouds.
  4. n. A fleeting trace or indication; a hint: a wisp of a smile.
  5. n. A flock of birds, especially snipe. See Synonyms at flock1.
  6. n. See ignis fatuus.
  7. v. To twist into wisps or a wisp.
  8. v. To drift in wisps: smoke wisping from chimneys.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A handful or small bundle, as of straw or hay; a twisted handful.
  2. n. A whisk, or small broom.
  3. n. An ignis fatuus, or will-o'-the-wisp.
  4. n. A disease in cattle, consisting in inflammation and suppuration of the interdigital tissues, most commonly of the hind feet. It may be due to the irritation of dirt, to overgrowth of the hoof, or other causes. Also called foul in the foot. Also whisp.
  5. n. In falconry, a flight or walk of snipe. =Syn.5. Covey, etc. See flock.
  6. To brush, dress, or rub down with or as with a wisp.
  7. To rumple.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A small bundle, as of straw or other like substance; any slender, flexible structure or group.
  2. v. To brush or dress, as with a wisp.
  3. v. UK, dialect To rumple.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A small bundle, as of straw or other like substance.
  2. n. A whisk, or small broom.
  3. n. A Will-o'-the-wisp; an ignis fatuus.
  4. v. To brush or dress, an with a wisp.
  5. v. Prov. Eng. To rumple.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a small person
  2. n. a small tuft or lock
  3. n. a flock of snipe
  4. n. a small bundle of straw or hay

Etymologies

  1. Middle English; akin to Middle Dutch/Middle Low German wispel 'measure of grain', Norwegian bokmål/Swedish/Bornholm Danish visp 'handful or bundle of grass, hay, etc'. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (2)

Words with the same meaning

  1. will-o'-the-wisp
  1. rumple

hypernyms (8)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. small person
  1. tuft
  1. tussock
  1. flock
  1. parcel
  1. package
  1. bundle
  1. packet

same context (22)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. tuft
  2. swirl
  3. strand
  4. streamer
  1. puff
  2. haze
  3. sheen
  4. wreath
  1. glimmer
  2. shred
  3. speck
  4. streak
  1. plume
  2. whiff
  3. blur
  4. veil
  1. halo
  2. flake
  3. gust
  4. fringe
  1. curl
  2. mustache

rhymes (3)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Lisp
  1. crisp
  1. lisp

reverse dictionary (33)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. ignis fatuus
  2. whisp
  3. will-in-the-wisp
  4. will-with-a-wisp
  5. wispen
  6. flock
  1. whisk
  2. will-o'-the-wisp
  3. jack-o'-lantern
  4. fen-fire
  5. dick-a-tuesday
  6. wisp
  1. night-fire
  2. rye-straw
  3. spunkie
  4. friar's lantern
  5. Brandon
  6. colepixy
  1. friar's-lantern
  2. kit-of-the-candlestick
  3. lock
  4. twine
  5. strand
  6. wispy
  1. night fire
  2. colt-pixy
  3. corpse-candle
  4. corpse-light
  5. dossil
  6. maiden
  1. wad
  2. walk
  3. wase

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