Eddy /(ĕd"dy̆)/

pl. Eddies ((ĕd"dĭz))

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.

   Wheel through the air, in circling eddies play.

imp. & p. p. Eddied; p. pr. & vb. n. Eddying

1. To move as an eddy, or as in an eddy; to move in a circle.

   Eddying round and round they sink.

1. To collect as into an eddy. [R.]

   The circling mountains eddy in From the bare wild the dissipated storm.