Part 3602

<h1>Edda</h1> <Xpage=470>

<hw>Ed"da</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Eddas</plw> <tt>(#)</tt></plu>. <ety>[Icel., lit. <ets>great-grandmother</ets> (<it>i. e.</it>, of Scandinavian poetry), so called by Bishop Brynj\'a3lf Sveinsson, who brought it again to light in 1643.]</ety> <def>The religious or mythological book of the old Scandinavian tribes of German origin, containing two collections of Sagas (legends, myths) of the old northern gods and heroes.</def>

<note>&hand; There are two Eddas. The older, consisting of 39 poems, was reduced to writing from oral tradition in Iceland between 1050 and 1133. The younger or <stype>prose Edda</stype>, called also the <stype>Edda of Snorri</stype>, is the work of several writers, though usually ascribed to Snorri Sturleson, who was born in 1178.</note>

<h1>Eddaic, Eddic</h1> <Xpage=470>

<hw><hw>Ed*da"ic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Ed"dic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt><hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Relating to the Eddas; resembling the Eddas.</def>

<h1>Edder</h1> <Xpage=470>

<hw>Ed"der</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Adder</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>An adder or serpent.</def> <mark>[Prov. Eng.]</mark>

<i>Wright.</i>

<h1>Edder</h1> <Xpage=470>

<hw>Ed"der</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[AS. <ets>edor</ets> hedge, fence; akin to <ets>etar</ets>.]</ety> <def>Flexible wood worked into the top of hedge stakes, to bind them together.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Tusser.</i>

<h1>Edder</h1> <Xpage=470>

<hw>Ed"der</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To bind the top interweaving edder; <as>as, to <ex>edder</ex> a hedge</as>.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Eddish</h1> <Xpage=470>

<hw>Ed"dish</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[AS. <ets>edisc</ets>; cf. AS. pref. <ets>ed-</ets> again, anew. Cf. <er>Eddy</er>, and <er>Arrish</er>.]</ety> <def>Aftermath; also, stubble and stubble field. See <er>Arrish</er>.</def> <mark>[Eng.]</mark>

<h1>Eddoes</h1> <Xpage=470>

<hw>Ed"does</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n. pl.</tt> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>The tubers of <i>Colocasia antiquorum</i>. See <er>Taro</er>.</def>

<h1>Eddy</h1> <Xpage=470>

<hw>Ed"dy</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Eddies</plw> <tt>(#)</tt></plu>. <ety>[Prob. fr. Icel. <ets>i<?/a</ets>; cf. Icel. pref. <ets>i<?/-</ets> back, AS. <ets>ed</ets>-, OS. <ets>idug</ets>-, OHG. <ets>ita</ets>-; Goth. <ets>id</ets>-.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>A current of air or water running back, or in a direction contrary to the main current.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A current of water or air moving in a circular direction; a whirlpool.</def>

<blockquote>And smiling <b>eddies</b> dimpled on the main. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Wheel through the air, in circling <b>eddies</b> play. <i>Addison.</i></blockquote>

<note>Used also adjectively; as, <i>eddy</i> winds.</note>

<i>Dryden.</i>

<h1>Eddy</h1> <Xpage=470>

<hw>Ed"dy</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Eddied</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Eddying</er>.]</wordforms> <def>To move as an eddy, or as in an eddy; to move in a circle.</def>

<blockquote><b>Eddying</b> round and round they sink. <i>Wordsworth.</i></blockquote>