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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.
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