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 ]
v. i.
Eddying round and round they sink. Wordsworth. [ 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 ]
(Elec.) An induced electric current circulating wholly within a mass of metal; -- called also
Called also