ODD, adjective
1. Not even; not divisible into equal numbers; as one, three, five, seven, etc.
Good luck lies in odd numbers.
2. Left or remaining after the union, estimate or use of even numbers; or remaining after round numbers or any number specified; as the odd number; the odd man.
Sixteen hundred and odd years after the earth was made, it was destroyed by a deluge.
3. Singular; extraordinary; differing from what is usual; strange; as an odd phenomenon.
It sometimes implies dislike or contempt; as an odd fellow.
4. Not noted; unheeded; not taken into the common account.
There are yet missing some few odd lads that you remember not.
5. Uncommon; particular.
The odd man to perform all three perfectly is Joannes Sturmis.
6. Uncommon; in appearance improper or not likely to answer the purpose. This is an odd way of doing things.
Locke's Essay would be an odd book for a man to make himself master of, who would get a reputation by his critical writings.
7. Separate from that which is regularly occupied; remaining unemployed. I will take some odd time to do this business. He may do it at odd times.
ODD'ITY, noun
1. Singularity; strangeness; as the oddity of dress, manners or shape; oddity of appearance.
2. A singular person; in colloquial language. This man is an oddity
ODD'LY, adverb
1. Not evenly. [Little used.]
2. Strangely; unusually; irregularly; singularly; uncouthly; as oddly dressed; oddly formed.
A figure oddly turned.
A black substance lying on the ground very oddly shaped.
ODD'NESS, noun
1. The state of being not even.
2. Singularity; strangeness; particularity; irregularity; uncouthness; as the oddness of dress or shape; the oddness of an event or accident.
ODDS, noun s as z. [It is used both in the singular and plural.]
1. Inequality; excess of either compared with the other; difference in favor of one and against another.
Preeminent by so much odds
In this example, much marks the singular number, and many cannot be used.
Cromwell, with odds of number and of fate -
All the odds between them has been the different scope given to their understandings to range in.
Judging is balancing an account and determining on which side the odds lie.
There appeared at least four to one odds against them.
2. Advantage; superiority.
3. Quarrel; dispute; debate.
It is odds more likely than the contrary. It is odds that he will find a shrewd temptation.
At odds in dispute; at variance; in controversy or quarrel.
That sets us all at odds
Or they must always be at odds
ODE, noun [Latin ode; Gr.] A short poem or song; a poetical composition proper to be set to music or sung; a lyric poem. The ode is of the greater or less kind; the less is characterized by sweetness and ease; the greater by sublimity, rapture and quickness of transition.
Pindar has left Olympic odes, Pythian odes, Nemean odes, and Isthmian odes.
The ode consists of unequal verses in stanzas or strophes.
O'DIOUS, adjective [Latin odiosus, from odi, I hated, Eng. hate.]
1. Hateful; deserving hatred. It expresses something less than detestable and abominable; as an odious name; odious vice.
All wickedness is odious
2. Offensive to the senses; disgusting; as an odious sight; an odious smell.
3. Causing hate; invidious; as, to utter odious truth.
4. Exposed to hatred.
He rendered himself odious to the parliament.
O'DIOUSLY, adverb
1. Hatefully; in a manner to deserve or excite hatred.
2. Invidiously; so as to cause hate.
O'DIOUSNESS, noun
1. Hatefulness; the quality that deserves or may excite hatred; as the odiousness of sin.
2. The state of being hated. [Not usual.]
O'DIUM, noun [Latin]
1. Hatred; dislike. This measure brought a general odium on his government.
2. The quality that provokes hatred; offensiveness.
She threw the odium of the fact on me.
ODONTAL'GIC, adjective [Gr. a tooth, and pain.] Pertaining to the tooth-ache.
ODONTAL'GIC, noun A remedy for the tooth-ache.
ODONTAL'GY, noun Tooth-ache.
O'DOR, noun [Latin] Smell; scent; fragrance; a sweet or an offensive smell; perfume.
O'DORAMENT, noun [Latin odoramentum.] A perfume; a strong scent.
O'DORATE, adjective [Latin odoratus.] Scented; having a strong scent, fetid or fragrant.
O'DORATING, adjective Diffusing odor or scent; fragrant.
ODORIF'EROUS, adjective [Latin odoriferus; odor and fero, to bear.]
1. Giving scent; diffusing fragrance; fragrant; perfumed; usually, sweet of scent; as odoriferous spices; odoriferous flowers.
2. Bearing scent; as odoriferous gales.
ODORIF'EROUSNESS, noun The quality of diffusing scent; fragrance; sweetness of scent.
O'DOROUS, adjective Sweet of scent; fragrant.
O'DOROUSNESS, noun Fragrance; the quality of diffusing scent, or of exciting the sensation of smell.