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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Odd \Odd\, a. [Compar. {Odder}; superl. {Oddest}.] [OE. odde,
fr.Icel. oddi a tongue of land, a triangle, an odd number
(from the third or odd angle, or point, of a triangle),
orig., a point, tip; akin to Icel. oddr point, point of a
weapon, Sw udda odd, udd point, Dan. od AS ord, OHG. ort,
G. ort place (cf. E. point, for change of meaning).]
1. Not paired with another, or remaining over after a
pairing; without a mate; unmatched; single; as an odd
shoe; an odd glove.
2. Not divisible by 2 without a remainder; not capable of
being evenly paired, one unit with another; as 1, 3, 7,
9, 11, etc., are odd numbers.
I hope good luck lies in odd numbers. --Shak.
3. Left over after a definite round number has been taken or
mentioned; indefinitely, but not greatly, exceeding a
specified number; extra.
Sixteen hundred and odd years after the earth was
made it was destroyed in a deluge. --T. Burnet.
There are yet missing of your company Some few odd
lads that you remember not --Shak.
4. Remaining over unconnected; detached; fragmentary; hence
occasional; inconsiderable; as odd jobs; odd minutes; odd
trifles.
5. Different from what is usual or common; unusual; singular;
peculiar; unique; strange. ``An odd action.'' --Shak. ``An
odd expression.'' --Thackeray.
The odd man, to perform all things perfectly, is in
my poor opinion, Joannes Sturmius --Ascham.
Patients have sometimes coveted odd things
--Arbuthnot.
Locke's Essay would be a very odd book for a man to
make himself master of who would get a reputation
by critical writings. --Spectator.
Syn: Quaint; unmatched; singular; unusual; extraordinary;
strange; queer; eccentric, whimsical; fantastical;
droll; comical. See {Quaint}.
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