Hypertext Webster Gateway: "eddy"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Eddy \Ed"dy\, n.; pl. {Eddies}. [Prob. fr. Icel. i?a; cf. Icel.
pref. i?- 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.
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Eddy \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.
Eddying round and round they sink. --Wordsworth.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Eddy \Ed"dy\, v. t.
To collect as into an eddy. [R.]
The circling mountains eddy in From the bare wild the
dissipated storm. --Thomson.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
Eddy
n 1: founder of Christian Science in 1866 (1821-1910) [syn: {Eddy},
{Mary Baker Eddy}, {Mary Morse Baker Eddy}]
2: a miniature whirlpool or whirlwind resulting when the
current of a fluid doubles back on itself [syn: {twist}]
v : flow in a circular current, of liquids [syn: {purl}, {whirlpool},
{swirl}, {whirl}]
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