odd come shortly (odkumshort"li)

Some day soon to come; an early day; some time; any time. [Slang.] Col. Mi , when will you be married? Mi . One of these odd - come - shortlys , Colonel. Swift, Polite Conversation, i. They say she is to be married and off to England ane of thae odd - come - short lies , wi' some of the gowks about the Waal down-by. Scott , St. Ronan's Well, xvii. odd-ends (od'endz'), n . pl . Scraps, fragments, or remnants; oddments; odds and ends. [Rare.] I am rather glad to heare the Devill is breaking up house in England, and removing some whither else, give him leave to sell all his rags, and odde - ends by the out-cry. N. Ward , Simple Cobler, p. 13. Odd-Fellow (od'fel"ō), n. [A fanciful name a umed by the original founders of the society.] A member of a secret benevolent and social society, called in full The Independent Order of Odd Fellows. The order arose in the eighteenth century, and various lodges were, about 1814, consolidated into the Manchester Unity, which is now the principal body in Great Britain. There are also lodges in the United States (the first permanent lodge was founded in 1819), and in Germany, Switzerland, Australia, South America, etc. The object of the order in the United States is declared to be "to visit the sick, relieve the distre ed, bury the dead, and educate the orphan, to improve and elevate the character of man." The subordinate lodges are under the jurisdiction of the grand lodge of the United States; each lodge has officers called noble grand, vice grand, etc., and five degrees of membership. Persons who hold the third degree are eligible to the "encampment," which has officers called chief patriarch, high priest, wardens, etc., and three degrees of membership. There is an affiliated degree of Rebekah for women. oddity (od'i-ti), n.; pl. oddities (-tiz). [Irreg. Almost everything that meets the eye has an ancient oddity which ekes out the general picturesquene . H. James, Jr., Trans. Sketches, p. 223. maining 2. A peculiarity; a singularity; an odd way. 5. Numbered with an odd number: as, the odd files of a company (that is, the files numbered 1, 3, 5, and so on).-6. Left over after pairs have been reckoned; by extension, remaining after any division into equal numbers or parts: thus, the division of sixteen or nineteen among five leaves an odd one or four odd.-7. Remaining over after, or differing from, the just or customary number. The Greekes and Latines vsed verses in the odde sillable of two sortes, which they called Catalecticke and Acatalecticke-that is, odde vnder and odde ouer the iust measure Putten ham, Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 107. of their verse. 8. Additional to a whole mentioned in round numbers, or to any other specified whole: following and after a number or quantity, or without and when it takes the place of a unit appended to a ten. A fortnight and odd days. Shak., R. and J., i. 3. 15. Eighty- odd years of sorrow have I seen. Shak., Rich. III., iv. 1. 96. The King of France and his company killed with their guns, in the plain de Versailles, 300 and odd partridges at one bout. Pepys , Diary, II. 365. Let me see-two-thirds of this is mine by right, five hundred and thirty- odd pounds. Sheridan , School for Scandal, iv. 1. 9. Not included with others; not taken into the common account; sporadic; incidental; casual: as, a few odd trifles; to read a book at odd times. There are yet mi ing of your company Some few odd lads that you remember not. Certainly the exemplary Mrs. Garth had her droll aspects, but her character sustained her oddities , as a very fine wine sustains a flavour of skin. George Eliot , Middle march, I. 267. 3. A singular person or thing; one characterized by oddne . [Colloq.] "He must be an oddity , I think," said she. "I cannot make him out." Jane Austen , Pride and Prejudice, p. 54. The mother who remained in the room when her daugh- ter had company was an oddity almost unknown in Equity. Howells, Modern Instance, iv. =Syn. See eccentric. odd-looking (od'lük"ing), a. Having a singu- lar look. oddly (od'li), adv . [ oddely ; odd + -ly2 .] In an odd manner. (at) Singly; only. Thou art oddely thyn one out of this fylthe, & als Abraham thy brother hit at himself asked. Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), ii. 923. (b) Not evenly; unevenly as regards number: as, an odd- ly odd number (see below). [Rare.] (c) Strangely; unusu- ally; irregularly; singularly; uncouthly; whimsically.- Oddly odd number, a number which contains an odd number an odd number of times: thus, 15 is a number oddly odd , because the odd number 3 measures it by the odd number 5. odd-mark (od'märk), n. That part of the arable land of a farm which, in the customary cultivation of the farm, is applied to a particular crop. Hall i well. [Prov. Eng.] Shak., Tempest, v. 1. 255. oddment (od'ment), n. [ How ferre odde those persons are from the nature of this prince whiche neuer thinken theim selfes to be praysed enough. Udall , tr. of Apophthegms of Erasmus, p. 185. I left [him] cooling of the air with sighs In an odd angle of the isle. Shak ., Tempest, i. 2. 223. 111. At odds; at variance; unable to consort or agree. [Rare.] The general state, I fear, Can scarce entreat you to be odd with him. Shak ., T. and C., iv. 5. 265. He had sewn up ever so many odalisques in sacks and tilted them into the Nile. odaller (ō'dal-ėr), n . Same as udaller . Odax (ō'daks), n . [NL., ὀδάξ , adv., by biting with the teeth, with unorig. prefix, δάκνειν , δακεῖν , bite.] A genus of labroid fishes, representing the subfamily Odacinæ. Cuvier. First cause your prechours, all and od, Trewlie sett furth the wourd of God. Lauder , Dewtie of Kyngis (E. E. T. S.), 1. 165. An odd fish. See fish1.- Odd function, jobs, man, etc. See the nouns. - Odd or even. See even or odd, under even1.- The odd trick, in the game of whist, the seventh thing remaining over; a thing not reckoned or included; an article belonging to a broken or incomplete set; a remnant; a trifle; an odd thing or job: usually in the plural. I have still so many book oddments of accounts, examinations, directions, and little household affairs to arrange. Mme . D'Arblay , Diary, VI. 54. ( Davies .) The cobbler approached the Clover fields stables to attend to the horses, and to do the various oddments and bitments for which he had been temporarily hired. The Century , XXXI. 395. oddne (od'nes), n. The property of being odd. (a) The state of being not even. (b) Singularity; strangene ; irregularity; uncouthne ; queerne ; whimsicality: as, oddne of dre or shape; the oddne of an event or accident. odd-pinnate (od'pin"āt), a. In bot., pinnate with a terminal odd leaflet, as in the rose; imparipinnate. odds (odz), n. pl., also often as sing. [ odds of one and against another; exce in favor of one as compared with another. Is not your way all one in effect with the former, which you founde faulte with, save onely this oddes , that I sayd by the halter, and you say by the swoorde? Spenser , State of Ireland. Compare perrye to Nectar wyne, Juniper bush to lofty pine; There shall no le an oddes be seene In myne from ever ye other Queene! Putten ham, Par then i a des, xv. Many are the examples of the great odds between number and courage. Bacon, Kingdoms and Estates (ed. 1887). Was it noble To be o'er-laid with odds and violence? Manly or brave in these thus to oppre you? Fletcher, Pilgrim, iv. 2. Enjoying thee Pre-eminent by so inuch odds . IMG:content-1629.png:[blocks in formation] (orthros). These are: (1, 2) the Songs of Moses in Exodus and Deuteronomy; (3-7) the Prayers of Hannah, Habak- kuk, Isaiah, Jonah (ii. 2-9), and the Three Children (Dan- iel iii. 3-34 in the Apocrypha); (8) the Benedicite; and (9) the Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis counted as one ode. See canticle . (b) One of a series of songs or hymns, normally nine in number, called the canon of odes (see canon1 , 13), sung to a mus i- cal tone, generally at lauds (orthros). Each ode consists of a variable number of troparia or stanzas. The second ode of a canon is always omitted except in Lent. The commemorations of the day, called synaxaria , are read after the sixth ode. ode2t, n. Same as oad for woad . B. Jonson. ode-factor (ōd'faktor), n. A maker of odes, or a trafficker in them: so called in contempt. Imp . Dict. Gives earth spectacle Of a brave fighter who succumbs to odds That turn defeat to victory. Browning , Ring and Book, xi. 1799. Often, too, I wonder at the odds of fortune. R. D. Black more , Lorna Doone, xx. Hence-2. Advantage; superiority. No (silly Lad), no, wert thou of the Gods, I would not fight at so vn-knightly ods . Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Trophies. 'Tis not The ground, weapon, or seconds that can make Odds in these fatal trials, but the cause. Beau . and Fl ., Honest Man's Fortune, iv. 2. Poor shift! yet make the best on 't, still the odds Is ours. J. Beaumont , Psyche, i. 24. 3. In betting, the amount or proportion by which the bet of one party to a wager exceeds that of the other: as, to lay or give odds. I will lay odds that, ere this year expire, We bear our civil swords and native fire As far as France. Shak ., 2 Hen. IV., v. 5. 111. Hence-4. Probability or degree of probability in favor of that on which odds are laid. The stars, I see, will ki the valleys first; The odds for high and low 's alike. Shak., W. T., v. 1. 207. They [stanzas out of Ta o] are set to a pretty solemn tune; and when one begins in any part of the poet, it is odds but he will be answered by somebody else that overhears him. Add is on , Remarks on Italy (ed. Bohn), L. 395. 5. In certain games, equalizing allowance given to a weaker side or player by a stronger, as a piece at che or points at tennis; an allowance as handicap. Lady Betty. Nay, my Lord, there's no standing against two of you. L. Fopping ton. No, faith, that's odds at tennis, my Lord; not but if your Ladyship pleases, I'll endeavour to keep your back hand a little; tho' upon my soul you may safely set me up at the line. Cibber, Carele Husband, iv. Er . You that are so good a Gamester ought to give me Odds. IMG:content-1630.png:[blocks in formation] To get you long odds from the bookmen when you want to back anything. Mi Braddon , Rupert Godwin, I. 281. Odds and ends, small miscellaneous articles. -let.] A little ode; a short ode. Philo to the Lady Calia sendeth this Odelet of her prayse in forme of a Piller, which ye must read downeward. Putten ham , Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 80. Odelsthing (ō'delz-ting), п. [Norw., odeman (ōd'man), n.; pl. odemen (-men). [ Edward and Harry were much braver men Than this new-christened hero of thy pen. Yes, laurelled Odeman , braver far by half. Wolcot (P. Pindar), Progre of Curiosity. odeon (ō-dē'on), n. See odeum. oder, a. An obsolete or dialectal form of other1. odeum (ō-dē'um), n. [Also odeon; L. odeum, > Gr. ᾠδεῖον, & music-hall, developed Roman theater. See under cave a. Seeing at one corner some seats made in the theatrical manner like steps, which seemed to be part of a small circle, I imagined it might be an odeum , or some other place for a small auditory. Pococke , Description of the East, II. ii. 43. Hence-2. At the present day, a name sometimes given to a theater, or to a hall or other structure devoted to musical or dramatic repreod-force (ōd'förs), n. Odic force. See od3. sent a tions. That od - force of German Reichenbach Which still from female finger-tips burns blue. Mrs. Browning, Aurora Leigh, vii. The od - force or the "spiritual power" to which the lovers of the marvellous are so fond of attributing the mysterious movements of turning and tilting tables. W. B. Carpenter, in Youman's Correlation and Conserva[tion of Forces, p. 402. odial (ō'di-al), n. [E. Ind.] A dried root of the young Palmyra palm, eaten boiled or reduced to a farina. odiblet (ō'di-bl), a. [= It. odibile, said to be of E. Ind. origin.] A genus of trees of the polypetalous order An a card i aceæ and the tribe Spondieæ, known by the ovule being suspended from near the apex of the cell, the pinnate leaves, and the drupe crowned with three or four thick styles. There are about 15 species, of Africa and India. Their few branches are bare to the tips, where they produce a few pinnate leaves and spreading or drooping racemes of small flowers. See goompain.