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noun

Eddy n. (pl. eddies)

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

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." Note: Used also adjectively; as, eddy winds.

verb

Eddy v. t. To collect as into an eddy. (R.) "The circling mountains eddy in From the bare wild the dissipated storm."

Eddy v. i. (past & past part. eddied; pres. part. eddying) To move as an eddy, or as in an eddy; to move in a circle. "Eddying round and round they sink."

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Etymology of 'Eddy'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Eddy" Quotes from Famous Books

... show, only with the vivid colors of reality and the deafening noise of exploding shells. Once they felt the submarine pass under them, so close that it made an eddy that pulled them toward the combating ships. When it came up to release its dart, the boys were too intent on keeping themselves enough out of the sea wash to breathe, to see whether the torpedo struck or not. The excitement grew in intensity. ...

— Shelled by an Unseen Foe • James Fiske

... aside from that flood. The lane opened slantingly into the main road with a narrow opening, and had a delusive appearance of coming from the direction of London. Yet a kind of eddy of people drove into its mouth; weaklings elbowed out of the stream, who for the most part rested but a moment before plunging into it again. A little way down the lane, with two friends bending over him, lay a man with a bare leg, wrapped ...

— The War of the Worlds • H. G. Wells

... what has happened to me, but you cannot understand how I feel. She looks exactly like me. It is that which makes the world eddy about me. I cannot get used to it. It is like seeing my own reflected image step from the mirror and walk about doing things. Two of us, Roger, two! If you saw her you would call her Georgian. And she says that she knows you, admires ...

— The Chief Legatee • Anna Katharine Green

... afterward, the current brought down another body, in an eddy, which La Louve did not perceive. It was the corpse of the ...

— The Mysteries of Paris V2 • Eugene Sue

... sitting on a shelving rock that jutted into the tideway, and at his feet his kindly plank bumped gently in an eddy ...

— Vandrad the Viking - The Feud and the Spell • J. Storer Clouston

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