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 Odd a. [Compar. Odder superl. Oddest.]
 1. Not paired with another, or remaining over after a pairing; without a mate; unmatched; single; as, an odd shoe; an odd glove.
 2. Not divisible by 2 without a remainder; not capable of being evenly paired, one unit with another; as, 1, 3, 7, 9, 11, etc., are odd numbers.
    I hope good luck lies in odd numbers.   --Shak.
 3. Left over after a definite round number has been taken or mentioned; indefinitely, but not greatly, exceeding a specified number; extra.
    Sixteen hundred and odd years after the earth was made, it was destroyed in a deluge.   --T. Burnet.
 There are yet missing of your company
 Some few odd lads that you remember not.   --Shak.
 4. Remaining over; unconnected; detached; fragmentary; hence, occasional; inconsiderable; as, odd jobs; odd minutes; odd trifles.
 5. Different from what is usual or common; unusual; singular; peculiar; unique; strange. “An odd action.” --Shak. “An odd expression.”
 Syn: -- extraordinary; queer.
    The odd man, to perform all things perfectly, is, in my poor opinion, Joannes Sturmius.   --Ascham.
    Patients have sometimes coveted odd things.   --Arbuthnot.
    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.
 Syn: -- Quaint; unmatched; singular; unusual; extraordinary; strange; queer; eccentric; whimsical; fantastical; droll; comical. See Quaint.
    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)
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