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.

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.

To move circularly, or as an eddy.

Whirling; moving circularly.