n.;
☞ 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
n. [ AS. edor hedge, fence; akin to etar. ] Flexible wood worked into the top of hedge stakes, to bind them together. [ Obs. ] Tusser. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. To bind the top interweaving edder;
n. [ See Adder. ] (Zoöl.) An adder or serpent. [ Prov. Eng. ] Wright. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ AS. edisc; cf. AS. pref. ed- again, anew. Cf. Eddy, and Arrish. ] Aftermath; also, stubble and stubble field. See Arrish. [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n. pl. (Bot.) The tubers of Colocasia antiquorum. See Taro. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.;
And smiling eddies dimpled on the main. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
Wheel through the air, in circling eddies play. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]
Used also adjectively; as, eddy winds. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. i.
Eddying round and round they sink. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. To collect as into an eddy. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
The circling mountains eddy in
From the bare wild the dissipated storm. Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]