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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.

O! run; prevent them with thy humble ode,

And lay it lowly at his blessed feet.

Ode factor, one who makes, or who traffics
in, odes; -- used contemptuously.


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