eddy

1. n. A current of air or water running back, or in a direction contrary to the main current. Source: opted

2. n. A current of water or air moving in a circular direction; a whirlpool. Source: opted

3. v. i. To move as an eddy, or as in an eddy; to move in a circle. Source: opted

4. v. t. To collect as into an eddy. Source: opted

5. n. a miniature whirlpool or whirlwind resulting when the current of a fluid doubles back on itself Source: wordnet

6. v. flow in a circular current, of liquids Source: wordnet

7. 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. To move as an eddy, or as in an eddy; to move in a circle. Eddying round and round they sink. Wordsworth. To collect as into an eddy. [R.] The circling mountains eddy in From the bare wild the dissipated storm. Thomson. Source: webster

8. To move as an eddy, or as in an eddy; to move in a circle.Eddying round and round they sink. Wordsworth. Source: adambom

9. v:34/n:66 n. founder of Christian Science in 1866 (1821-1910) n. a miniature whirlpool or whirlwind resulting when the current of a fluid doubles back on itself v. flow in a circular current, of liquids Source: ecdict

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