eddy Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun founder of Christian Science in 1866 (1821-1910)
    Mary Baker Eddy; Mary Morse Baker Eddy.
  2. noun a miniature whirlpool or whirlwind resulting when the current of a fluid doubles back on itself
    twist.
  3. verb flow in a circular current, of liquids
    swirl; whirl; whirlpool; purl.

WordNet

Ed"dy noun
Etymology
Prob. fr. Icel. ia; cf. Icel. pref. i- back, AS. ed-, OS. idug-, OHG. ita-; Goth. id-.
Wordforms
plural Eddies
Definitions
  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.
    Used also adjectively; as, eddy winds. Dryden.
Ed"dy intransitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Eddied ; present participle & verbal noun Eddying
Definitions
  1. To move as an eddy, or as in an eddy; to move in a circle.
    Eddying round and round they sink. Wordsworth.
Ed"dy transitive verb
Definitions
  1. To collect as into an eddy. R.
    The circling mountains eddy in From the bare wild the dissipated storm. Thomson.

Webster 1913