EDDYING

Verb

eddying

present participle of eddy

Noun

eddying (plural eddyings)

The motion of an eddy.

Anagrams

• yedding

Source: Wiktionary


EDDY

Ed"dy, n.; pl. Eddies. Etym: [Prob. fr. Icel. i; 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.]

Definition: 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.

Definition: To collect as into an eddy. [R.] The circling mountains eddy in From the bare wild the dissipated storm. Thomson.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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