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To beat or bang. [Prov. & Low, Eng.] Todd.

The goddess of war.

A point taken by the receiver of odds in the game of tennis; also, an extra innings allowed to a weaker player in croquet.

Odd in manner or appearance; fantastic; whimsical; extravagant; grotesque. C. Kingsley.

tain with difficulty or unusual effort; -- often with up. To bolster baseness. Drayton. Shoddy inventions designed to bolster up a factitious pride. Compton Reade.

along a river; low-lying ground; a dale; a valley. "The bottoms and the high grounds." Stoddard.

boy in a manners or opinions; belonging to a boy; childish; trifling; puerile. A boyish, odd conceit. Baillie.

ious or antique article of virtu, as a piece of antiquated furniture or metal work, or an odd knickknack.

Trodden by buskins; pertaining to tragedy. "The buskined stage." Milton.

To bring up or nourish by hand, or with tenderness; to coddle; to tame. [Obs.] Johnson.

Gay; easy; offhand; frank. The plodding, persevering scupulous accuracy of the one, and the easy, cavalier, verbal fluency of the other, from a complete contrast. Hazlitt.

The daughter of Saturn and Ops or Rhea, the goddess of corn and tillage.

Inclining or nodding downward; pendulous; drooping; -- said of a bud, flower, fruit, or the capsule of a moss.

A woman hired for odd work or for single days.

One who gathers rags and odds and ends; a ragpicker.

e critical periods are thought by some to be the years produced by multiplying 7 into the odd numbers 3, 5, 7, and 9; to which others add the 81st year.

To collect into clods, or into a thick mass; to coagulate; to clot; as, clodded gore. See Clot. Clodded in lumps of clay. G. Fletcher.

ow] The . . . queen of Spain took off one of her chopines and clouted Olivarez about the noddle with it. Howell.

A singular or odd person; -- a familiar, humorous, or depreciatory appellation. [Colloq.] A few of us old codgers met at the fireside. Emerson.

See Coddle.