odd (od)

[ IMG:content-1628.png:[blocks in formation] Run fetch me de ax, en I'll wait on you one er deze oddcome-shorts. J. C. Harris, Uncle Remus, vii., note. sole; singular; especially, single as rendering 2. Any misfit garment that has come into a a pair or series incomplete; lacking a match; being of a pair or series of which the rest is wanting: as, an odd glove; two or three odd volumes of a series. Then there are the sellers of odd numbers of periodicals and broadsheets. Mayhew, London Labour and London Poor, I. 229. An odd volume of Bewick. T. Hughes, Tom Brown at Rugby, ii. 3. 21. Singular in excellence; unique; sole; hence, peerle ; famous. Alle the i hadden be discounfited, for these kynges were odde noble knyghtes, and more peple be the toon half than on Arthurs syde. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 159. Achilles high it in hast, and on horse wan, And auntrid vppon Ector a full od dynt. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 7254. As he in soueraine dignitie is odde , So will he in loue no parting fellowes haue. Sir T. More, Works, p. 28. 3. Singular in looks or character; peculiar; eccentric; at variance with what is usual: as, an odd way of doing things; an odd appear ance. Men singular in art Have always some odd whimsey more than usual. Ford, Lover's Melancholy, iii. 3. Being such a Clerk in the Law, all the World wonders he left such an odd Will. Howell, Letters, I. vi. 17. So odd a Thing is Man, He most would be what least he should or can. Congreve, Of Pleasing. It's odd how hats expand their brims as riper years invade, As if when life had reached its noon it wanted them for O. W. Holmes, Nux Postcœnatica. shade! 4. Leaving, as a number, a remainder of one when divided by two: opposed to even. Good luck lies in odd numbers. Shak ., M. W. of W., v. 1. 3. dealer's po e ion; any one of odds and ends in the way of dre . The Odd Dealer.