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Pronunciation : Ed"dy
Part of Speech : n.;
Etymology : [Prob. fr. Icel. i; cf. Icel. pref. i back, AS. ed-, OS. idug-, OHG. ita-; Goth. id-.]
Definition : 1. A current of air or water running back, or in a direction contrary to the main current.

2. A current of water or air moving in a circular direction; a whirlpool. And smiling eddies dimpled on the main. Dryden. Wheel through the air, in circling eddies play. Addison.

Note: Used also adjectively; as, eddy winds. Dryden.

pl. Eddies.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Ed"dy
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : Defn: To move as an eddy, or as in an eddy; to move in a circle. Eddying round and round they sink. Wordsworth.

i. [imp. & p. p. Eddied; p. pr. & vb. n. Eddying.]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Ed"dy
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : Defn: To collect as into an eddy. [R.] The circling mountains eddy in From the bare wild the dissipated storm. Thomson.

t.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913