Shak.
At odds, in dispute; at variance. "These squires at odds did fall."
Spenser. "He flashes into one gross crime or other, that sets us all at
odds." Shak. -- It is odds, it is probable. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor. -- Odds
and ends, that which is left; remnants; fragments; refuse; scraps;
miscellaneous articles. "My brain is filled . . . with all kinds of
odds and ends." W. Irving.
Ode (?), n. [F., fr. L. ode, oda, Gr. &?; a song, especially a lyric
song, contr. fr. &?;, fr. &?; to sing; cf.Skr. vad to speak, sing. Cf.
Comedy, Melody, Monody.] A short poetical composition proper to be set
to music or sung; a lyric poem; esp., now, a poem characterized by
sustained noble sentiment and appropriate dignity of style.
Hangs odes upon hawthorns and elegies on brambles.
Shak.
O! run; prevent them with thy humble ode, And lay it lowly at his
blessed feet.
Milton.
Ode factor, one who makes, or who traffics in, odes; -- used
contemptuously.
Ode"let (?), n. A little or short ode.
O*de"on (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?;, fr. &?;: cf.F. odéon. See Ode.] A
kind of theater in ancient Greece, smaller than the dramatic theater
and roofed over, in which poets and musicians submitted their works to
the approval of the public, and contended for prizes; -- hence, in
modern usage, the name of a hall for musical or dramatic performances.
||O*de"um (?), n. [L.] See Odeon.
O"di*ble (?), a. [L. odibilis. See Odium.] Fitted to excite hatred;
hateful. [Obs.] Bale.
Od"ic (?), a. Of or pertaining to od. See Od. [Archaic] -- Od"ic*al*ly
(#), adv.
O"din (?), n. [Icel. &?;; prob.akin to E. wood, a. See Wednesday.]
(Northern Myth.) The supreme deity of the Scandinavians; -- the same as
Woden, of the German tribes.
There in the Temple, carved in wood, The image of great Odin stood.
Longfellow.
O*din"ic (?), a. Of or pertaining to Odin.
O"di*ous (?), a. [L. odiosus, from odium hatred: cf. F. odieux. See
Odium.] 1. Hateful; deserving or receiving hatred; as, an odious name,
system, vice. "All wickedness will be most odious." Sprat.
He rendered himself odious to the Parliament.
Clarendon.
2. Causing or provoking hatred, repugnance, or disgust; offensive;
disagreeable; repulsive; as, an odious sight; an odious smell. Milton.
The odious side of that polity.
Macaulay.
Syn. -- Hateful; detestable; abominable; disgusting; loathsome;
invidious; repulsive; forbidding; unpopular.
-- O"di*ous`ly. adv. -- O"di*ous*ness, n.
Od"ist (?), n. A writer of an ode or odes.
O"di*um (?), n. [L., fr. odi I hate. Gr. Annoy, Noisome.] 1. Hatred;
dislike; as, his conduct brought him into odium, or, brought odium upon
him.