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• n  a small tuft or lock
  wisps of hair
• n  a small person
  a mere wisp of a girl
• n  a small bundle of straw or hay
• n  a flock of snipe

• After the first wisp of smoke had appeared, signifying election of a new Pope, crowds streaming toward the historic square had snarled every street in Rome west of the Tiber.
• As a result, my Internet access would vanish and reappear like a will-o'-the-wisp, even when I engaged OS X's excitingly named "interference robustness" feature.
• At the end of August, a wisp of flame suddenly appeared in the Arctic twilight over the Barents Sea, bathing the low clouds over the Norwegian port of Hammerfest in a spectral extravaganza.

News & Articles

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• A grilled salad perfect for Dad on Father's Day
  Grilled romaine lettuce has an intense flavor with a wisp of smoke.
  June 12, 2013 - The Express-Times
• Stimulus Technologies Deploys Exalt for Gigabit Backbone Network
  Wireless Internet Service Provider (WISP) Replaces Core Network Leased Fiber With Exalt ExtremeAir Systems
  June 11, 2013 - Marketwire

Quotes

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• John Roberts in San Diego Union Tribune
  Ten years in jail is too much to hinge on the will-o'-the-wisp of statutory meaning pursued by the majority,Roberts said.
• Brad Gooch in Baltimore Sun
  O'Connor's screen debut,Gooch writes, "exists in all its fragility in a Pathe film archive. ...... For all of four seconds, O'Connor, a self-possessed little girl, is glimpsed in glaring afternoon light, a wisp of curls peeking from...
• Katha Pollitt in Daily Mail
  A teenager who saw this movie would feel like a moral failure for choosing abortion,says feminist commentator Katha Pollitt. "The mother in me winced at Juno, that wisp of a child-woman, going through pregnancy and childbirth."