wisp

IPA: wˈɪsp

A small bundle, as of straw or other like substance; any slender, flexible structure or group.
A whisk, or small broom.
A will o' the wisp, or ignis fatuus.
An immeasurable, indefinable essence of life; soul.
(archaic) A flock of snipe.
(uncountable) A disease affecting the feet of cattle.
Acronym of wireless internet service provider. (wireless ISP)

Examples of "wisp" in Sentences

A flock of snipe is called a wisp, although you usually flush them in singles and pairs.
Self-evidence is often a mere will-o'-the-wisp, which is sure to lead us astray if we take it as our guide.
In olden days, it was personified as "Will with the wisp," a sprite who carried a fleeting "wisp" of light.
You don’t see that subverting all the hard earned rights of americans, to protect against a will o the wisp is clearly unpatriotic?
One such will o' the wisp was the claim in various Scottish media that the billionaire might join an investment group in refurbishing Lews Castle as a luxury hotel.
Another assumption about the Levy on Capital that seems to me to be the merest will o 'the wisp is the delusion that the whole saving that it would entail by reducing the debt charge would necessarily and certainly go to the relief of income tax.
And finally we see the spirit -- delicate, ethereal, a "faint ochre-colored cloud", a "thin wisp", "motes of dust dancing in the narrow beams of the robot's gaze" -- put into the robot/car, merged with it and transforming it into a deeply strange fusion of robot, automobile and rock.
The old feudal lords would swear by the Almighty Father, or the Son, or Holy Ghost, or by everything sacred on earth, and break their oaths as they would break a wisp of straw: but if you could get one of them to swear by the Three Kings of Cologne, he was fast; for that oath he dare not disregard.