Wisp










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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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1. A small bundle, as of straw or other like substance.
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In a small basket, on a wisp of hay. --Dryden.
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2. A whisk, or small broom.
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3. A Will-o'-the-wisp; an ignis fatuus.
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The wisp that flickers where no foot can tread.
--Tennyson.
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Wisp \Wisp\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wisped; p. pr. & vb. n.
Wisping.]
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1. To brush or dress, an with a wisp.
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2. To rumple. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.
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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
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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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wisp [wisp]
Haarbüschel; Strohbündel; Wisch

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wisp

csutak
egycsomószalma
egymaréknyiszalma
emberke
fidibusz
füstgomolyag
kiskötegszalma
kisseprôcske
kötözôháncs
lidérc
lidércfény
seprûcske
szalmacsomó
szalmacsutak
szalmatekercs
szalonkahúzás
szalonkaraj
összesodortpapír


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Büschel n
wisp

Haarbüschel n
wisp

Strähne f; Haarsträhne f
wisp

Strohbündel n
wisp

Wisch m
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72 Moby Thesaurus words for "wisp":
autoluminescence, bantam, banty, batch, bioluminescence, bunch,
button, cathode luminescence, chemicoluminescence,
chemiluminescence, chit, clump, cluster, copse, corposant, crop,
crystalloluminescence, diminutive, double corposant,
electroluminescence, fata morgana, featherweight, fingerling,
fluorescence, fox fire, group, grouping, groupment, grove, hassock,
ignis fatuus, knot, lightweight, lot, luciferase, luciferin,
luminescence, luminophor, marshfire, mess, mini, minikin, minnow,
minny, mouse, noctiluscence, nubbin, peewee, phosphor,
phosphorescence, photoluminescence, pony, radioluminescence, runt,
shock, shrimp, slew, slip, small fry, snip, snippet, stook,
thermoluminescence, thicket, tit, tribofluorescence,
triboluminescence, tribophosphorescence, tuft, tussock, wart,
witch fire



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