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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

ED'DISH
ED'DOES
ED'DY, n. [I find this word in no other language. It is usually considered as a compound of Sax.ed, backward, and ea, water.]
1. 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.
2. 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.
ED'DY, v.i. To move circularly, or as an eddy.
ED'DY, a. Whirling; moving circularly.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. [Written also Eadish.] Eagrass, earsh, etch. See aftermath.