eddy

[Ed·dy]

Founder of Christian Science in 1866 (1821 1910)

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A current of air or water running back, or in a direction contrary to the main current.

Noun
a miniature whirlpool or whirlwind resulting when the current of a fluid doubles back on itself

Noun
founder of Christian Science in 1866 (1821-1910)

Verb
flow in a circular current, of liquids

n.
A current of air or water running back, or in a direction contrary to the main current.

n.
A current of water or air moving in a circular direction; a whirlpool.

v. i.
To move as an eddy, or as in an eddy; to move in a circle.

v. t.
To collect as into an eddy.

Eddy

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.

Wheel through the air, in circling eddies play.

Used also adjectively; as, eddy winds. Dryden.

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.

Eddy

Ed"dy, v. t. To collect as into an eddy. [R.]

The circling mountains eddy in From the bare wild the dissipated storm.

A current of air or water running back, or in a direction contrary to the main current.

To move as an eddy, or as in an eddy; to move in a circle.

To collect as into an eddy.

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