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   Eddy , n.; pl. Eddies . [Prob. fr. Icel. iða; cf. Icel. pref. ið- back, AS. ed-, OS. idug-, OHG. ita-; Goth. id-.]
   A current of air or water running back, or in a direction contrary to the main current.
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   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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   Eddy, 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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   Eddy, 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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