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." Thackeray.
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.
Odd" Fel`low (?). A member of a secret order, or fraternity, styled the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, established for mutual aid and social
enjoyment.
Odd"i*ty (?), n.; pl. Oddities (&?;). 1. 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.