Eddy

n. [This word is considered as a compound of A-S. ed, again, anew, backward, and ea, running water, a stream.]

1Sense 1. A current of air or water running back, or in a direction contrary to the main current.

2Sense 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.

v. i. [imp. & p. p. EDDIED (ĕd'did); p. pr. & vb. n. EDDYING.] To move as an eddy.

Eddying round and round they sink. Wordsworth.

v. t. To collect as into an eddy. The circling mountains eddy in From the bare wild the dissipated storm. Thomson.

a. Whirling; moving circularly. Dryden.