And smiling eddies dimpled on the main.
Dryden.
Wheel through the air, in circling eddies play.
Addison.
Used also adjectively; as, eddy winds. Dryden.
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.
Eddying round and round they sink.
Wordsworth.