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Eddish [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. ED'DISH

2. ED'DOES

3. 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.]

4. 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.

5. A whirlpool; a current of water or air in a circular direction.

6. And smiling eddies dimpled on the main.

7. Wheel through the air, in circling eddies play.

Eddish [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Whirling; moving circularly.

Eddish [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To move circularly, or as an eddy.

Eddish [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Aftermath; also, stubble and stubble field. See Arrish.