Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary -- Volume DE

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 prose Edda, called also the Edda of Snorri, is the work of several writers, though usually ascribed to Snorri Sturleson, who was born in 1178.

Ed·da"ic (?), Ed"dic (?), a. Relating to the Eddas; resembling the Eddas.

Ed"der (?), n. [See Adder.] (Zoöl.) An adder or serpent. [Prov. Eng.] Wright.

Ed"der, n. [AS. edor hedge, fence; akin to etar.] Flexible wood worked into the top of hedge stakes, to bind them together. [Obs.] Tusser.

Ed"der, v. t. To bind the top interweaving edder; as, to edder a hedge. [Obs.]

Ed"dish (?), n. [AS. edisc; cf. AS. pref. ed- again, anew. Cf. Eddy, and Arrish.] Aftermath; also, stubble and stubble field. See Arrish. [Eng.]

Ed"does (?), n. pl. (Bot.) The tubers of Colocasia antiquorum. See Taro.

Ed"dy (ĕd"d), n.; pl. Eddies (-dĭz). [Prob. fr. Icel. iða; cf. Icel. pref. ið- back, AS. ed-, OS. idug-, OHG. ita-; Goth. id-.]

1. A current of air or water running back, or in a direction contrary to the main current.

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

And smiling eddies dimpled on the main.
Dryden.

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

Used also adjectively; as, eddy winds. Dryden.

-- Eddy current. (Elec.) An induced electric current circulating wholly within a mass of metal; -- called also Foucault current.