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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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

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

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)