Stir with a wire whisk to combine. Dedicated electric milk frothers may also be used, usually consisting of a motorized whisk. A smaller whisk broom or brush is sometimes called a duster. Zoroastro conjures up some spirits to whisk Angelica away in a cloud. Raoul plans to whisk Christine safely away to London following the next performance. Later, Lincoln arrives, expecting to whisk Adelle away. Along with Buddha was the image of Padamapani carrying a fly whisk. Two types of physical stress are caused by beating them with a whisk. The wire whisk was invented sometime before 1841. Psilotum is a genus of fern-like vascular plants, commonly known as whisk ferns. Psilotum nudum, known as the whisk fern, is a fernlike plant. A "chaur" (fan whisk) is waved above the Guru Granth Sahib. This was followed by E.P. Griffith's whisk patented in England in 1857.