wisp
wisp
- 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.