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Odds (&obreve;dz), n. sing. & pl. [See
Odd, a.] 1. Difference
in favor of one and against another; excess of one of two things or
numbers over the other; inequality; advantage; superiority; hence,
excess of chances; probability. "Preëminent by so much
odds." Milton. "The fearful odds of that unequal
fray." Trench.

The odds

Is that we scarce are men and you are gods.

There appeared, at least, four to one odds
against them.

All the odds between them has been the
different scope . . . given to their understandings to range
in.

Judging is balancing an account and determining on
which side the odds lie.

2. Quarrel; dispute; debate; strife; --
chiefly in the phrase at odds.

Set them into confounding odds.

I can not speak

Any beginning to this peevish odds.


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