ED'DISH ED'DOES ED'DY, noun [I find this word in no other language. It is usually considered as a compound of Sax.ed, backward, and ea, water.] 1. A current of water running back, or in a direction contrary to the main stream. Thus a point of land extending into a river, checks the water near the shore, and turns it back or gives it a circular course. The word is applied also to the air or wind moving in a circular direction. 2. A whirlpool; a current of water or air in a circular direction. And smiling eddies dimpled on the main. Wheel through the air, in circling eddies play. ED'DY, verb intransitive To move circularly, or as an eddy. ED'DY, adjective Whirling; moving circularly.
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