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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Odd \Odd\ ([o^]d), a. [Compar. {Odder} ([o^]d"[~e]r); superl.
     {Oddest}.] [OE. odde, fr. Icel. oddi a tongue of land, a
     triangle, an odd number (from the third or odd angle, or
     point, of a triangle), orig., a point, tip; akin to Icel.
     oddr point, point of a weapon, Sw. udda odd, udd point, Dan.
     od, AS. ord, OHG. ort, G. ort place (cf. E. point, for change


     of meaning).]
     1. Not paired with another, or remaining over after a
        pairing; without a mate; unmatched; single; as, an odd
        shoe; an odd glove.
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     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.
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              I hope good luck lies in odd numbers. --Shak.
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     3. Left over after a definite round number has been taken or
        mentioned; indefinitely, but not greatly, exceeding a
        specified number; extra.
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              Sixteen hundred and odd years after the earth was
              made, it was destroyed in a deluge.   --T. Burnet.
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              There are yet missing of your company
              Some few odd lads that you remember not. --Shak.
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     4. Remaining over; unconnected; detached; fragmentary; hence,
        occasional; inconsiderable; as, odd jobs; odd minutes; odd
        trifles.
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     5. Different from what is usual or common; unusual; singular;
        peculiar; unique; strange. "An odd action." --Shak. "An
        odd expression." --Thackeray.
  
     Syn: extraordinary; queer.
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                The odd man, to perform all things perfectly, is,
                in my poor opinion, Joannes Sturmius. --Ascham.
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                Patients have sometimes coveted odd things.
                                                    --Arbuthnot.
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                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.
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     Syn: Quaint; unmatched; singular; unusual; extraordinary;
          strange; queer; eccentric; whimsical; fantastical;
          droll; comical. See {Quaint}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  odd
       adj 1: not divisible by two [ant: {even}]
       2: not easily explained; "it is odd that his name is never
          mentioned"
       3: an indefinite quantity more than that specified; "invited
          30-odd guests"
       4: beyond or deviating from the usual or expected; "a curious
          hybrid accent"; "her speech has a funny twang"; "they have
          some funny ideas about war"; "had an odd name"; "the
          peculiar aromatic odor of cloves"; "something definitely
          queer about this town"; "what a rum fellow"; "singular
          behavior" [syn: {curious}, {funny}, {peculiar}, {queer}, {rum},
           {rummy}, {singular}]
       5: of the remaining member of a pair, of socks e.g. [syn: {unmatched},
           {unmated}, {unpaired}]
       6: not used up; "leftover meatloaf"; "she had a little money
          left over so she went to a movie"; "some odd dollars
          left"; "saved the remaining sandwiches for supper";
          "unexpended provisions" [syn: {leftover}, {left over(p)},
          {left(p)}, {remaining}, {unexpended}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  204 Moby Thesaurus words for "odd":
     abnormal, absolute, absurd, algorismic, algorithmic, aliquot,
     alone, anomalous, asymmetric, azygous, bereft of reason, brainsick,
     cardinal, casual, celibate, chance, contingent, contrasting,
     counter, crackbrained, cracked, crank, crankish, cranky, crazed,
     crazy, crotchety, curious, daft, decimal, deluded, demented,
     deprived of reason, deranged, deviant, deviative, different,
     differential, digital, disoriented, disparate, disproportionate,
     dissimilar, distraught, divergent, diverse, dotty, eccentric,
     erratic, even, exceptional, exponential, extra, fey, figural,
     figurate, figurative, finite, first and last, flaky, flighty,
     fluky, fortuitous, fractional, freaked out, freakish, freaky,
     funny, hallucinated, hardly like, idiocratic, idiosyncratic,
     ill-matched, ill-sorted, imaginary, impair, impossible, inadequate,
     incidental, infinite, insane, insufficient, integral, irrational,
     irregular, kinky, kooky, left, leftover, loco, logarithmic,
     logometric, lone, lunatic, mad, maddened, maggoty, manic, mazed,
     mental, mentally deficient, meshuggah, mismatched, moon-struck,
     negative, net, non compos, non compos mentis, nonuniform,
     not all there, not right, numeral, numerary, numerative, numeric,
     nutty, occasional, oddball, of unsound mind, off, off the wall,
     offbeat, one and only, only, only-begotten, ordinal, out,
     out of proportion, out-of-the-way, outlandish, outstanding, over,
     pair, part-time, passing strange, peculiar, positive, possible,
     prime, psycho, quaint, queer, quirky, radical, rational, real,
     reasonless, reciprocal, remaining, remanent, scarcely like,
     screwball, screwy, senseless, sick, side, single, singular, skew,
     skewed, sole, spare, stark-mad, stark-staring mad, strange,
     submultiple, superfluous, surd, surplus, surviving, tetched,
     to spare, touched, transcendental, twisted, unalike, unbalanced,
     unconsumed, unconventional, unearthly, unequal, uneven, unhinged,
     unidentical, unique, unlike, unmatched, unnatural, unpaired,
     unrepeated, unresembling, unsame, unsane, unsettled, unsimilar,
     unsound, unused, unusual, wacky, wandering, weird, whimsical,
     witless, wondrous strange
  
  

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  ODD
       Operator Distance-Dialing
       
       

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:

  Odd, WV
    Zip code(s): 25902

















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