a.
I hope good luck lies in odd numbers. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
Sixteen hundred and odd years after the earth was made, it was destroyed in a deluge. T. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]
There are yet missing of your company
Some few odd lads that you remember not. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
The odd man, to perform all things perfectly, is, in my poor opinion, Joannes Sturmius. Ascham. [ 1913 Webster ]
Patients have sometimes coveted odd things. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]
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. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.
Pluto is an oddball among its eight sister planets. It's the smallest in both size and mass, and has the most elliptical orbit. It moves in a plane tilted markedly away from the other planets' orbits. Moreover, Pluto is the only planet made almost entirely of ice. Ron Cohen (Science News, Feb. 27, 1999, p. 139)
a. Eccentric; very unusual; strange; bizarre;
A member of a secret order, or fraternity, styled the
n.;
That infinitude of oddities in him. Sterne. [ 1913 Webster ]
adj. varied and irregularly performed; -- of paid labor;
adv.
A great black substance, . . . very oddly shaped. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Odd + -ment. ] An odd thing, or one that is left over, disconnected, fragmentary, or the like; something that is separated or disconnected from its fellows;
A miscellaneous collection of riddles, charms, gnomic verses, and “oddments” of different kinds. Saintsbury. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
n.
Take but one from three, and you not only destroy the oddness, but also the essence of that number. Fotherby. [ 1913 Webster ]
adj. (Bot.) Pinnate with a single leaflet at the apex; -- of a leaf shape.