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Not paired with another, or remaining over after a pairing; without a mate; unmatched; single; as, an odd shoe; an odd glove.

That which shoots off or separates from a main stem, channel, family, race, etc.; as, the offshoots of a tree.

by separating the greater portion of the solid fat or stearin, by crystallization. It is mainly a mixture of olein and palmitin with some little stearin.

To hold or maintain persistently. [Obs.] Barrow.

A back chamber; especially, that part of the naos, or cella, farthest from the main entrance, sometimes having an entrance of its own, and often used as a treasury.

attacks some theirs or proposition, in distinction from the respondent, or defendant, who maintains it. How becomingly does Philopolis exercise his office, and seasonably commit the opponent with the respondent, like a long-practiced moderator! Dr. H. More.

An instrument for measuring the distance of distinct vision, mainly for the selection of eveglasses.

A small, handsome trout (Salvelinus oquassa), found in some of the lakes in Maine; -- called also blueback trout.

se of the regning sovereign of Great Britain, the support of the Protestant religion, the maintenance of the laws of the kingdom, etc.; -- so called in honor of William, Prince of Orange, who became William III. of England.

ting characters peculiar to living organisms; as, organic bodies, organic life, organic remains. Cf. Inorganic.

The fossil remains of a bird.

formation of bone; the process, in the growth of an animal, by which inorganic material (mainly lime salts) is deposited in cartilage or membrane, forming bony tissue; ostosis.

A tumor composed mainly of bone; a tumor of a bone.

by abatement, intrusion, disseizin, discontinuance, or deforcement. Blackstone. Ouster le main. Etym: [Ouster + F. la main the hand, L. manus.] (Law) A delivery of lands out of the hands of a guardian, or out of the king's hands, or a judgement given for that purpose. Blackstone.

A building separate from, and subordinate to, the main house; an outhouse.

A guard or small body of troops at a distance from the main body of an army, to watch for the approach of an enemy; hence, anything for defense placed at a distance from the thing to be defended.

A small house or building at a little distance from the main house; an outbuilding.

That which lies, or is, away from the main body.

Lying or being at a distance from the central part, or the main body; being on, or beyond, the frontier; exterior; remote; detached.

A post or station without the limits of a camp, or at a distance from the main body of an army, for observation of the enemy.