n.;
☞ There are two Eddas. The older, consisting of 39 poems, was reduced to writing from oral tradition in Iceland between 1050 and 1133. The younger or
v. t. To bind the top interweaving edder;
n. [ See Adder. ] (Zoöl.) An adder or serpent. [ Prov. Eng. ] Wright. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ AS. edor hedge, fence; akin to etar. ] Flexible wood worked into the top of hedge stakes, to bind them together. [ Obs. ] Tusser. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ AS. edisc; cf. AS. pref. ed- again, anew. Cf. Eddy, and Arrish. ] Aftermath; also, stubble and stubble field. See Arrish. [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n. pl. (Bot.) The tubers of Colocasia antiquorum. See Taro. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. To collect as into an eddy. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
The circling mountains eddy in
From the bare wild the dissipated storm. Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. i.
Eddying round and round they sink. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.;
And smiling eddies dimpled on the main. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
Wheel through the air, in circling eddies play. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]
Used also adjectively; as, eddy winds. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]