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Eddy   /ˈɛdi/   Listen
noun
Eddy  n.  (pl. eddies)  
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." 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."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Eddy" Quotes from Famous Books



... Eddy O'Day's poem with great delight. Along toward the end it carries a sentiment that our dear old friend John Boyle O'Reilly expressed in his poem Bohemia, in which he ...
— The Letters of Franklin K. Lane • Franklin K. Lane

... now 1881, and once more the "Forty—Count 'Em—Forty" set forth to rediscover America, with Charles Frohman as manager. His name now appeared at the head of the bill, and to celebrate the great event Eddy Brooke wrote a "Frohman March," which had a conspicuous place ...
— Charles Frohman: Manager and Man • Isaac Frederick Marcosson and Daniel Frohman

... and jovially over all sorts of light matters; an excellent supper was served; and in the novelty and the brightness and the liveliness of all about her, Dolly was in a kind of bewitchment. It was a lull, a pause in the midst of her cares, a still nook to which an eddy had brought her, out of the current; Dolly took the full benefit. She would not think of trouble. Sometimes a swift feeling of contrast swept in upon her, the contrast of her friend's safe and sheltered life. No care for her; no anxiety about ways and means; no need to work for money; ...
— The End of a Coil • Susan Warner

... were, with one exception, in nowise different from any other night. Seven of them, with glimmering eyes and steady legs, had capped a day of Scotch with swivel-sticked cocktails and sat down to dinner. Jacketed, trousered, and shod, they were: Jerry McMurtrey, the manager; Eddy Little and Jack Andrews, clerks; Captain Stapler, of the recruiting ketch Merry; Darby Shryleton, planter from Tito-Ito; Peter Gee, a half-caste Chinese pearl-buyer who ranged from Ceylon to the Paumotus, ...
— A Son Of The Sun • Jack London

... forgotten the meeting of Invincible Club members and Sons of Liberty in the sanctum sanctorum of the Chicago Times, where the question of punishing Col. R.M. Hough and Mr. Eddy, in redress of personal injuries alleged to have been inflicted upon Wilbur F. Story, was gravely discussed by B.G. Caulfield, O.J. Rose, Alderman Barrett, S. Remington and others, and where also, large numbers of muskets and smaller arms ...
— The Great North-Western Conspiracy In All Its Startling Details • I. Windslow Ayer


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