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5 definitions found 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 1.6 [wn]: Eddy n 1: (1821-1910) founder of Christian Science in 1866 [syn: {Eddy}, {Mary 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}, {gurge}, {whirlpool}, {swirl}, {whirl}] From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: Eddy, TX Zip code(s): 76524
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