(n.) A small bundle, as of straw or other like substance.
(n.) A whisk, or small broom.
(n.) A Will-o'-the-wisp; an ignis fatuus.
(v. t.) To brush or dress, an with a wisp.
(v. t.) To rumple.
Example Sentences:
(1) Separating the distal anterior tip and lateral edges of an ingrown toenail from the adjacent soft tissue with a wisp of absorbent cotton coated with collodion gives immediate relief of pain and provides a firm runway for further growth of the nail.
(2) The water layer (2 ml = 5 ml milk) was injected onto a Polymer Laboratories PLRP-S column using a WISP autosampler with the solvent, 0.01 M pH 7.0 phosphate buffer (A).
(3) Nutritional status was evaluated according to Gómez, intellectual performance according to Weschler's scale (WISP and WISC tests), psychomotor development according to the Denver Developmental Screening Test and PSAC according to a numerical scale constructed from maternal I.Q.
(4) It’s hard to overstate how absurdly beautiful it is: the rhododendron trees are in full bloom, huge creamy magnolia blossoms hang alongside the path and wisps of cloud cling to the peaks.
(5) The structure stained is approximately spherical, but wisps of faint fluorescence also extend into the body of the spindle.
(6) Amyloid of the classical plaque periphery appears as amyloid wisps.
(7) Kewell looks like that kid from the TV show Third Rock from the Sun - he's an ineffective wisp of a player and they should rid themselves of his services next season.
(8) constant number of merozoites in mature schizonts,--the disposition of the pigment, well apart from the parasitic mass to which it is linked by a tiny wisp of cytoplasm,--the normal host erythrocyte, the shape, size and colour of which are unaltered.
(9) On my third day I was at the Médecins Sans Frontières treatment centre with my sister Katie, a documentary film-maker who was accompanying me, when I reached out to tuck a wisp of her hair that had come loose.
(10) Her hands wave violently around wisps of Afro that have escaped her do.
(11) The glowing doors of megastores are drawing us in with Pied Piped muzak and will-o’-the-wisp Christmas deals.
(12) When I visited, boards pinned with scraps of embroidery, squares of woven tweed and wisps of lace were stacked against Perspex boxes, containing archived clothes and accessories, towering towards the skylights.
(13) Most amyloid wisps are isolated between astrocytic processes proliferating and penetrating into the plaque.
(14) Filmy wisps of tissue, presumably intimal flaps, were commonly visualized after angioplasty.
(15) The scientists will not only look for wimps, but also weakly interacting slim particles, or wisps.
(16) Another option is a member of the wisp family of particles called an axion.
(17) They conjure up the skillet on the open fire; will‑o'‑the-wisps over a pitch black bog; the purple heath.
(18) Kicking off his own Twitter stream yesterday with a vintage image of himself and the words " hi im prince ", the Purple One proceeded to upload his very first selfie, which turned out to be a few wisps of smoke.
(19) Watch Kerry Godliman's routine here Jokes and standup routines are mercurial little will-o'-the-wisps.
(20) Normal collagen fibrils are infrequent; they are in part replaced by wisps of nondiscrete material, possibly immature collagen.