Ed"dy (?), n.; pl. Eddies (#). [Prob. fr. Icel. ia; 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.
Used also adjectively; as, eddy winds.
Dryden.
© Webster 1913.
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.
© Webster 1913.
Ed"dy, v. t.
To collect as into an eddy.
[R.]
The circling mountains eddy in
From the bare wild the dissipated storm.
Thomson.
© Webster 1913.