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 ]
a. Eccentric; very unusual; strange; bizarre;
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 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.