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etending to posses what is not natural or real. He is . . . too spruce, too affected, too odd. Shak.

bers in a series, which regularly intervene between the members of another series, as the odd or even numbers of the numerals; every other; every second; as, the alternate members 1, 3, 5, 7, etc. ; read every alternate line.

Without a brain; brainless. Todd & B.

Nodding; as, annuent muscles (used in nodding).

or the entrance to an interior part. The mouth, the antechamber to the digestive canal. Todd & Bowman.

Odd; fantastic; fanciful; grotesque; ludicrous. The antic postures of a merry-andrew. Addison. The Saxons . . . worshiped many idols, barbarous in name, some monstrous, all antic for shape. Fuller.

Oddly; grotesquely.

Odd; fantastic. [In this sense, written antic.]

The Greek goddess of love, corresponding to the Venus of the Romans.

g to, or resembling, silver; made of, or sounding like, silver; silvery. Celestial Dian, goddess argentine. Shak.

Snatched away; seized or possessed, as a demoniac; raving; mad; crack-brained. [Obs.] Odd, arreptitious, frantic extravagances. Howell.

Even; not odd; -- said of elementary substances and of radicals the valence of which is divisible by two without a remainder.

Without a material body; incorporeal. Todd.

The goddess of mischievous folly; also, in later poets, the goddess of vengeance.

The Roman personification of the dawn of day; the goddess of the morning. The poets represented her a rising out of the ocean, in a chariot, with rosy fingers dropping gentle dew.

Proceeds; as, the avails of a sale by auction. The avails of their own industry. Stoddard.

Odd; out of order; perverse. [Obs.]

Odd; having no fellow; not one of a pair; single; as, the azygous muscle of the uvula.

In bad taste; grotesque; odd.

To exalt to the dignity of a god; to deify. [Obs.] "Begodded saints." South.