<B>oddball, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S. Slang.) <DD><I>noun </I> a person or thing that differs from the usual or accepted standards in features, behavior, habits, or the like. <BR> <I>Ex. The platypus has been the oddball of the animal world (New York Journal American).</I> <DD><I>adj. </I> unusual for its type and often somewhat amusing; odd; eccentric. <BR> <I>Ex. oddball humor.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="oddeven">
<B>odd-even, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) of or having to do with a system of restricting the sale of gasoline in a period of shortage by matching odd and even numbered days on the calendar with odd and even license plate numbers. <BR> <I>Ex. Panicky motorists bluffed and bribed to beat the odd-even system, and station operators took most of the heat (Newsweek).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="oddeyed">
<B>odd-eyed, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having eyes of two different colors, such as one yellow and one blue. Some white Persian and domestic shorthair cats are odd-eyed. </DL>
<A NAME="oddfellow">
<B>Odd Fellow,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, a secret social and benevolent society. </DL>
<A NAME="oddfish">
<B>odd fish,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) an odd or singular person. <BR> <I>Ex. He was an odd fish; ignorant of common life, fond of rudely opposing received opinions, slovenly to extreme dirtiness, enthusiastic in some points of religion, and a little knavish withal (Benjamin Franklin).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="oddity">
<B>oddity, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ties.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>strangeness; queerness; peculiarity. <BR> <I>Ex. the oddity of wearing a fur coat over a bathing suit. All people have their oddities (Benjamin Disraeli).</I> (SYN) singularity. <DD><B> 2. </B>a strange, queer, or peculiar person or thing. <BR> <I>Ex. Here is a strange, fantastical oddity ... who harangues every day in the pump room (Tobias Smollett).</I> (SYN) freak, curiosity. </DL>
<A NAME="oddjobber">
<B>odd-jobber, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (British.) an odd-job man. </DL>
<A NAME="oddjobman">
<B>odd-job man,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (British.) a man who does odd jobs; handyman. </DL>
<A NAME="oddlot">
<B>odd lot,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a quantity of goods or securities smaller than the normal or standard amount used in the trading. <BR> <I>Ex. On the New York Stock Exchange, the usual unit of trading is 100 shares, called a "round lot." Smaller units are referred to as "odd lots" (Wall Street Journal).</I> adj. <B>odd-lot.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="oddlotter">
<B>odd-lotter, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> one who buys shares in odd lots (less than 100 shares). </DL>
<A NAME="oddly">
<B>oddly, </B>adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> in an odd manner; queerly; strangely. </DL>
<A NAME="oddmanout">
<B>odd-man-out, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a person or thing left out of a group; a person who does not fit or belong in a group. <BR> <I>Ex. He is an odd-man-out of his native world (Harper's).</I> <DD><B> 2a. </B>the person singled out, as by tossing a coin or in some similar way, from among a number of people to perform some special act or service. <DD><B> b. </B>this way of selection. <DD><I>adj. </I> left out or eliminated, especially for being different from the rest of the group. </DL>
<A NAME="oddment">
<B>oddment, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a thing left over; extra bit; remnant. <BR><I>expr. <B>oddments,</B> <DD><B> a. </B>(Printing.) parts of a book other than the text, such as the title page, preface, and table of contents. </I> <I>Ex. The oddments of this book are set in brevier and great primer.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>odds and ends. <BR> <I>Ex. oddments of furniture, including a desk (Arnold Bennett).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="oddnumbered">
<B>odd-numbered, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having a whole number which, when divided by 2, leaves a remainder of one. <BR> <I>Ex. May 19 is an odd-numbered day. 1939 is an odd-numbered year.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="oddpinnate">
<B>odd-pinnate, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> pinnate with an odd terminal leaflet; imparipinnate. </DL>
<A NAME="odds">
<B>odds, </B>noun pl. or sing.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a difference in favor of one and against another; advantage. In betting, odds of 3 to 1 mean that 3 will be paid if the bet is lost for every 1 that is received if the bet is won. <BR> <I>Ex. The odds are in our favor and we should win. How can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his Fathers, And the temples of his Gods? (Macaulay).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>an extra allowance given to the weaker player or side in a game. <DD><B> 3. </B>things that are odd, uneven, or unequal. <BR> <I>Ex. Yet death we fear, That makes these odds all even (Shakespeare).</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>difference or the amount of difference. <BR> <I>Ex. It makes no odds to me when he goes.</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>at odds,</B> </I>quarreling; disagreeing. <BR> <I>Ex. The two brothers were often at odds. Pity 'tis you lived at odds so long (Shakespeare).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>by all odds,</B> </I>by any reckoning; without doubt. <BR> <I>Ex. Herblock is by all odds one of the most ... useful commentators on the American scene. ... He can think, he can draw, and he can write (New Yorker).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>odds and ends,</B> </I>stray bits left over; scraps; remnants. <BR> <I>Ex. If there's ever a bit o' odds an' ends as nobody else 'ud eat, you're sure to pick it out (George Eliot).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>the odds are,</B> </I>the chances are; the probability is: Since we are a better team, the odds are we will win. <BR> <I>Ex. The odds are, that she has a thousand faults, at least (Maria Edgeworth).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="oddsboard">
<B>odds board,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a large, usually illuminated board at a race track, on which are posted the betting odds on the horses entered in a given race. </DL>
<A NAME="oddsmaker">
<B>odds-maker, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who makes a business of establishing the odds for betting, especially in a sporting event. <BR> <I>Ex. The professional odds-makers have established the slugging [prizefighter] a 13-5 favorite to retain his crown (New York Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="oddson">
<B>odds-on, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> having the odds in one's favor; having a good chance to win in a contest. <BR> <I>Ex. [He] seems an odds-on favorite in the October 8 election (Wall Street Journal).</I> <DD><I>noun </I> favorable odds; a good chance to win. <BR> <I>Ex. Silver Spoon started at odds-on ... and the best she could do was finish third (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="oddtrick">
<B>odd trick,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (in contract bridge) a trick won by the declarer in excess of six. </DL>
<A NAME="ode">
<B>ode, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a lyric poem full of noble or enthusiastic feeling expressed with dignity. It is often addressed to some person or thing. <BR> <I>Ex. Pindar, of ancient Greece, wrote odes in praise of athletic heroes (Charles W. Cooper).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a poem intended to be sung. </DL>
<A NAME="odelsting">
<B>Odelsting</B> or <B>Odelsthing, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the larger of the two sections of the national legislature (Storting) of Norway. </DL>
<A NAME="odeon">
<B>odeon, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a theater or music hall; odeum. <BR> <I>Ex. Six years later ... [he] sought surcease in an odeon on the Champs Elysees (Tallulah Bankhead).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="odeum">
<B>odeum, </B>noun, pl. <B>odea.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a theater, hall, or other large enclosed area, used for musical or dramatic performances. <DD><B> 2. </B>(in ancient Greece and Rome) a roofed building in which vocal and instrumental music was performed. </DL>
<A NAME="odic">
<B>odic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with an ode. </DL>
<A NAME="odiferous">
<B>odiferous, </B>adjective. <B>=odoriferous.</B> <I>Ex. We saw close-packed slum houses of crumbling cement--one- and two-room barracks fronting on streets of odiferous mud that served both as thoroughfare and plumbing (Maclean's).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="odin">
<B>Odin, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Norse Mythology.) the chief god. Odin was the god of wisdom, culture, war, and the dead. The Germans and Anglo-Saxons called him Woden. Also, <B>Othin.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="odious">
<B>odious, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> very displeasing; hateful; offensive. <BR> <I>Ex. an odious smell. You told a lie, an odious damned lie (Shakespeare). The unhappy woman ... whose image became more odious to him every day (George Eliot).</I> (SYN) detestable, abominable, abhorrent, repulsive. adv. <B>odiously.</B> noun <B>odiousness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="odium">
<B>odium, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>hatred; great dislike. <BR> <I>Ex. It was his lot to taste the bitterness of popular odium (Hawthorne).</I> (SYN) detestation, aversion, opprobrium. <DD><B> 2. </B>reproach or blame. <BR> <I>Ex. to bear the odium of having betrayed one's friend. The West would surely be wise to let the Russians take on the odium of being the first to resume testing (Manchester Guardian).</I> (SYN) disgrace, stigma, disfavor. </DL>
<A NAME="odiumtheologicum">
<B>odium theologicum,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> rancor or acrimony characterizing or resembling theological dissensions. </DL>
<A NAME="odograph">
<B>odograph, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>an odometer that makes a record of what it measures. <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=pedometer.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="odometer">
<B>odometer, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a device for measuring distance traveled by a vehicle, by recording the number of revolutions of a wheel. <BR> <I>Ex. Odometers are as unreliable as speedometers because they operate from the same shaft that rotates the speedometer magnet (New York Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="odometry">
<B>odometry, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the measurement by some mechanical device of distances traveled. </DL>
<A NAME="odonate">
<B>odonate, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> of or belonging to an order of insects having chewing mouthparts, hind wings as large or larger than the forewings, and large compound eyes. Dragonflies and damsel flies belong to this order. <DD><I>noun </I> an odonate insect. </DL>
<A NAME="odont">
<B>odont-,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (combining form.) the form of <B>odonto-</B> before vowels, as in <I>odontalgia.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="odontalgia">
<B>odontalgia, </B>noun. <B>=toothache.</B></DL>
<A NAME="odontalgic">
<B>odontalgic, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> of, having to do with, or suffering from toothache. <DD><I>noun </I> a remedy for a toothache. </DL>
<A NAME="odonto">
<B>odonto-,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (combining form.) tooth; teeth. <BR> <I>Ex. Odontology = the scientific study of the teeth.</I> <DL COMPACT><DD> Also, <B>odont-</B> before vowels. </DL>
