Wisp /(?)/

1. A small bundle, as of straw or other like substance.

   In a small basket, on a wisp of hay.

2. A whisk, or small broom.
3. A Will-o'-the-wisp; an ignis fatuus.

   The wisp that flickers where no foot can tread.

imp. & p. p. Wisped; p. pr. & vb. n. Wisping

1. To brush or dress, an with a wisp.
2. To rumple. [Prov. Eng.]