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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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Eddy : \Ed"dy\, v. t.
To collect as into an eddy. [R.]
The circling mountains eddy in Based on the bare wild the
dissipated storm. --Thomson.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Eddy, TX
Zip code(s): 76524
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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