Eddy

n.	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.
v. i.	1.	To move as an eddy, or as in an eddy; to move in a circle. [imp. & p. p. Eddied ; p. pr. & vb. n. Eddying.] Eddying round and round they sink. - Wordsworth.
v. t.	1.	To collect as into an eddy. The circling mountains eddy in From the bare wild the dissipated storm. - Thomson.

Noun	1.	Eddy - founder of Christian Science in 1866 (1821-1910) Synonyms: Mary Baker Eddy, Mary Morse Baker Eddy
	2.	eddy - a miniature whirlpool or whirlwind resulting when the current of a fluid doubles back on itself Synonyms: twist
Verb	1.	eddy - flow in a circular current, of liquids Synonyms: purl, whirlpool, swirl, whirl

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