\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.

\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.