In addition to the practice of this old writer, modern grooms add wisping, which usually follows brushing.

He is remarkably neat in his person, wisping himself all over with hay for hours at a time.

Puffs of woolly-white smoke showed where the shrapnel was bursting, and these were wisped away into the heavy clouds.

White from imprisonment, her small round steel-rimmed glasses dropping away from her blue eyes, and her curly brown hair wisping out from under her black felt hat, the countess embraced a few of the women in the room and exchanged handclasps with the men.

Now and then the little greenish-white light will-o'-the-wisped ahead, flickering hither, yon.