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(d"d), n.; pl. Eddies (-dz). [Prob. fr. Icel. ia; 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. Used also adjectively; as, eddy winds. Dryden. 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. Ed"dy v. t.To collect as into an eddy. [R.] The circling mountains eddy in From the bare wild the dissipated storm. Thomson. スポンサード リンク
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