Good Books

There are yet missing of your company

Some few odd lads that you remember not.

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.

Patients have sometimes coveted odd
things.

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.

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.


Pages:
2162 2163 2164 2165 2166 2167 2168 2169 2170 2171 2172 2173 2174 2175 2176 2177 2178 2179 2180 2181 2182 2183 2184 2185 2186