EDDY
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Ed"dy (ĕd"dӗ), n.; pl. Eddies (ĕd"dĭz). [Prob. fr. Icel. iða; cf. Icel. pref. ið- back, AS. ed-, OS. idug-, OHG. ita-; Goth. id-.] 1. A current of air or water running back, or in a direction contrary to the main current.
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2. A current of water or air moving in a circular direction; a whirlpool.
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And smiling eddies dimpled on the main.
Dryden.
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Wheel through the air, in circling eddies play.
Addison.
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Used also adjectively; as, eddy winds. Dryden.
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Ed"dy, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Eddied (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Eddying.] To move as an eddy, or as in an eddy; to move in a circle.
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Eddying round and round they sink.
Wordsworth.
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Ed"dy, v. t. To collect as into an eddy. [R.]
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The circling mountains eddy in
From the bare wild the dissipated storm.
Thomson.
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