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ith another, or remaining over after a pairing; without a mate; unmatched; single; as, an odd shoe; an odd glove.

A member of a secret order, or fraternity, styled the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, established for mutual aid and social enjoyment.

The quality or state of being odd; singularity; queerness; peculiarity; as, oddity of dress, manners, and the like. That infinitude of oddities in him. Sterne.

In an odd manner; unevently. [R.]

An odd thing, or one that is left over, disconnected, fragmentary, or the like; something that is separated or disconnected from its fellows; esp. (in pl.),

The state of being odd, or not even. Take but one from three, and you not only destroy the oddness, but also the essence of that number. Fotherby.

ty; advantage; superiority; hence, excess of chances; probability. "Preëminent by so much odds." Milton. "The fearful odds of that unequal fray." Trench. The odds Is that we scare are men and you are gods. Shak. There appeared, at least, four to one odds against them. Swift. All the odds between them has been the diffe…

See Bodick.

Resembling clods; gross; low; stupid; boorish. Hawthorne. -- Clod"dish*ness, n.

Consisting of clods; full of clods.

A gatherer of cods or peas. [Obs. or Prov.] Johnson.

Lustful. [Obs.] Shak.

To parboil, or soften by boiling. It [the guava fruit] may be coddled. Dampier.

A gull in the plumage of its first year.

ked with crow's-feet, or wrinkles, about the eyes. [Poetic] Do I look as if I were crow-trodden Beau. & FL.

A female demigod.

To cut off, as wool from sheep's tails; to lop or clip off. Halliwell.

A game much like hockey, played in an open field; also, the, bent stick for playing the game. [Local, Eng.] Halliwell.

Without horns; as, dodded cattle; without beards; as, dodded corn. Halliwell.

To shake, tremble, or totter. "The doddering mast." Thomson.