Noah Webster
Eddish
ED'DISH
ED'DOES
ED'DY, noun [I find this word in no other language. It is usually considered as a compound of Sax.ed, backward, and ea, water.]
1. A current of water running back, or in a direction contrary to the main stream. Thus a point of land extending into a river, checks the water near the shore, and turns it back or gives it a circular course. The word is applied also to the air or wind moving in a circular direction.
2. A whirlpool; a current of water or air in a circular direction.
And smiling eddies dimpled on the main.
Wheel through the air, in circling eddies play.
ED'DY, verb intransitive To move circularly, or as an eddy.
ED'DY, adjective Whirling; moving circularly.