eddy

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

Eddy
    n 1: founder of Christian Science in 1866 (1821-1910) [syn:
         {Eddy}, {Mary Baker Eddy}, {Mary Morse Baker Eddy}]
    2: a miniature whirlpool or whirlwind resulting when the current
       of a fluid doubles back on itself [syn: {eddy}, {twist}]
    v 1: flow in a circular current, of liquids [syn: {eddy},
         {purl}, {whirlpool}, {swirl}, {whirl}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Eddy \Ed"dy\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Eddied}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Eddying}.]
   To move as an eddy, or as in an eddy; to move in a circle.
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         Eddying round and round they sink.       --Wordsworth.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Eddy \Ed"dy\, v. t.
   To collect as into an eddy. [R.]
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         The circling mountains eddy in
         From the bare wild the dissipated storm. --Thomson.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Eddy \Ed"dy\ ([e^]d"d[y^]), n.; pl. {Eddies} ([e^]d"d[i^]z).
   [Prob. fr. Icel. i[eth]a; cf. Icel. pref. i[eth]- 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.
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   2. A current of water or air moving in a circular direction;
      a whirlpool.
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            And smiling eddies dimpled on the main. --Dryden.
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            Wheel through the air, in circling eddies play.
                                                  --Addison.
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   Note: Used also adjectively; as, eddy winds. --Dryden.
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from U.S. Gazetteer (1990)

Eddy, TX
  Zip code(s): 76524

from U.S. Gazetteer Counties (2000)

Eddy -- U.S. County in North Dakota
   Population (2000):    2757
   Housing Units (2000): 1418
   Land area (2000):     630.118543 sq. miles (1631.999466 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    14.109773 sq. miles (36.544144 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    644.228316 sq. miles (1668.543610 sq. km)
   Located within:       North Dakota (ND), FIPS 38
   Location:             47.747572 N, 98.975712 W
   Headwords:
    Eddy
    Eddy, ND
    Eddy County
    Eddy County, ND

from U.S. Gazetteer Counties (2000)

Eddy -- U.S. County in New Mexico
   Population (2000):    51658
   Housing Units (2000): 22249
   Land area (2000):     4182.021664 sq. miles (10831.385925 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    15.552658 sq. miles (40.281198 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    4197.574322 sq. miles (10871.667123 sq. km)
   Located within:       New Mexico (NM), FIPS 35
   Location:             32.527170 N, 104.262035 W
   Headwords:
    Eddy
    Eddy, NM
    Eddy County
    Eddy County, NM

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

73 Moby Thesaurus words for "eddy":
      Charybdis, Maelstrom, ado, agitation, back, back stream, backflow,
      backwash, backwater, brouhaha, bustle, centrifugate, centrifuge,
      commotion, countercurrent, counterflow, counterflux, cyclone,
      disturbance, dizzy round, dust devil, ebullience, ebullition,
      effervescence, embroilment, feery-fary, ferment, fermentation,
      flurry, fume, gulf, gurge, gyre, hurly-burly, hurricane, hurry,
      hurry-scurry, maelstrom, pell-mell, perturbation, pirouette, purl,
      rat race, reel, refluence, reflux, regurgitation, round, ruffle,
      spin, stir, surge, swirl, swirling, to-do, tornado, tumult,
      turbulence, turmoil, turn, twirl, twister, typhoon, uproar, vortex,
      waterspout, wheel, whirl, whirligig, whirlpool, whirlwind, whorl,
      yeastiness

from Who Was Who: 5000 B. C. to Date

EDDY

Mrs., of Boston, Mass., U. S. A., a lady who made
millions by telling the world there was no such thing as the
toothache, sea-sickness, or hitting your thumb with a hammer.