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[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
odd \odd\ o^d, a. compar. odder o^d"~er; superl.
   oddest. oe. odde, fr. icel. oddi a tongue of land, a
   triangle, an odd number from the third or odd angle, or
   point, of a triangle, orig., a point, tip; akin to icel.
   oddr point, point of a weapon, sw. udda odd, udd point, dan.
   od, as. ord, ohg. ort, g. ort place cf. e. point, for change
   of meaning.
   1. not paired with another, or remaining over after a
      pairing; without a mate; unmatched; single; as, an odd
      shoe; an odd glove.
      1913 webster

   2. not divisible by 2 without a remainder; not capable of
      being evenly paired, one unit with another; as, 1, 3, 7,
      9, 11, etc., are odd numbers.
      1913 webster

            i hope good luck lies in odd numbers. --shak.
      1913 webster

   3. left over after a definite round number has been taken or
      mentioned; indefinitely, but not greatly, exceeding a
      specified number; extra.
      1913 webster

            sixteen hundred and odd years after the earth was
            made, it was destroyed in a deluge.   --t. burnet.
      1913 webster

            there are yet missing of your company
            some few odd lads that you remember not. --shak.
      1913 webster

   4. remaining over; unconnected; detached; fragmentary; hence,
      occasional; inconsiderable; as, odd jobs; odd minutes; odd
      trifles.
      1913 webster

   5. different from what is usual or common; unusual; singular;
      peculiar; unique; strange. "an odd action." --shak. "an
      odd expression." --thackeray.

   syn: extraordinary; queer.
        1913 webster

              the odd man, to perform all things perfectly, is,
              in my poor opinion, joannes sturmius. --ascham.
        1913 webster

              patients have sometimes coveted odd things.
                                                  --arbuthnot.
        1913 webster

              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.    --spectator.
        1913 webster

   syn: quaint; unmatched; singular; unusual; extraordinary;
        strange; queer; eccentric; whimsical; fantastical;
        droll; comical. see quaint.
        1913 webster
see also:
odder oddest quaint 
[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
odd
     adj 1: not divisible by two ant: even
     2: not easily explained; "it is odd that his name is never
        mentioned"
     3: an indefinite quantity more than that specified; "invited
        30-odd guests"
     4: beyond or deviating from the usual or expected; "a curious
        hybrid accent"; "her speech has a funny twang"; "they have
        some funny ideas about war"; "had an odd name"; "the
        peculiar aromatic odor of cloves"; "something definitely
        queer about this town"; "what a rum fellow"; "singular
        behavior" syn: curious, funny, peculiar, queer, rum,
         rummy, singular
     5: of the remaining member of a pair, of socks e.g. syn: unmatched,
         unmated, unpaired
     6: not used up; "leftover meatloaf"; "she had a little money
        left over so she went to a movie"; "some odd dollars
        left"; "saved the remaining sandwiches for supper";
        "unexpended provisions" syn: leftover, left overp,
        leftp, remaining, unexpended
see also:
even curious funny peculiar queer rum 
rummy singular unmatched unmated unpaired 
leftover left overp leftp remaining unexpended 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
204 moby thesaurus words for "odd":
   abnormal, absolute, absurd, algorismic, algorithmic, aliquot,
   alone, anomalous, asymmetric, azygous, bereft of reason, brainsick,
   cardinal, casual, celibate, chance, contingent, contrasting,
   counter, crackbrained, cracked, crank, crankish, cranky, crazed,
   crazy, crotchety, curious, daft, decimal, deluded, demented,
   deprived of reason, deranged, deviant, deviative, different,
   differential, digital, disoriented, disparate, disproportionate,
   dissimilar, distraught, divergent, diverse, dotty, eccentric,
   erratic, even, exceptional, exponential, extra, fey, figural,
   figurate, figurative, finite, first and last, flaky, flighty,
   fluky, fortuitous, fractional, freaked out, freakish, freaky,
   funny, hallucinated, hardly like, idiocratic, idiosyncratic,
   ill-matched, ill-sorted, imaginary, impair, impossible, inadequate,
   incidental, infinite, insane, insufficient, integral, irrational,
   irregular, kinky, kooky, left, leftover, loco, logarithmic,
   logometric, lone, lunatic, mad, maddened, maggoty, manic, mazed,
   mental, mentally deficient, meshuggah, mismatched, moon-struck,
   negative, net, non compos, non compos mentis, nonuniform,
   not all there, not right, numeral, numerary, numerative, numeric,
   nutty, occasional, oddball, of unsound mind, off, off the wall,
   offbeat, one and only, only, only-begotten, ordinal, out,
   out of proportion, out-of-the-way, outlandish, outstanding, over,
   pair, part-time, passing strange, peculiar, positive, possible,
   prime, psycho, quaint, queer, quirky, radical, rational, real,
   reasonless, reciprocal, remaining, remanent, scarcely like,
   screwball, screwy, senseless, sick, side, single, singular, skew,
   skewed, sole, spare, stark-mad, stark-staring mad, strange,
   submultiple, superfluous, surd, surplus, surviving, tetched,
   to spare, touched, transcendental, twisted, unalike, unbalanced,
   unconsumed, unconventional, unearthly, unequal, uneven, unhinged,
   unidentical, unique, unlike, unmatched, unnatural, unpaired,
   unrepeated, unresembling, unsame, unsane, unsettled, unsimilar,
   unsound, unused, unusual, wacky, wandering, weird, whimsical,
   witless, wondrous strange




[4] : Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002)
odd
     operator distance-dialing
     
     

[5] : U.S. Gazetteer (1990)
odd, wv
  zip codes: 25902


Results 1 - 10 of 18 found about odd:

Odd Nerdrum
...I appreciate Odd Nerdrum but only to the extent that he does not ... with Odd Nerdrum.. Copyright © 1979 - 2006 Odd Nerdrum. All rights ... ..
http://www.nerdrum.com/, score=100, date indexed=January 19, 2006, 4:13 pm

oddtodd.com - Laid Off - No Nothing Productions.
...COOLIO FAN ART. SEARCH THE SITE. DAILY FUN LINK ARCHIVE. ODD TODD ... LAID OFF LAND (LOL). ODD TODD TRIBE. MOBILE CHAT. DOPEY CHATTER THING ... ..
http://www.oddtodd.com/, score=97, date indexed=December 29, 2005, 10:12 pm

ODD Grenland
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http://www.oddgrenland.no/, score=97, date indexed=December 29, 2005, 10:47 pm

The Sovereign Grand Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows
...... Odd Fellows". Odd Fellows are also known as "The Three Link Fraternity" ... The Independent Order of Odd Fellows was founded on the North American ... ..
http://www.ioof.org/, score=95, date indexed=December 29, 2005, 10:24 pm

Odd Jobs
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http://oddjobs.keenspace.com/, score=94, date indexed=December 31, 2005, 7:54 pm

GRUNTLAND.COM | official site for 30 Odd Foot of Grunts | moock flash player ...
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http://www.gruntland.com/, score=93, date indexed=December 29, 2005, 10:40 pm

Odd pics of the strange, weird, and bizarre - Page 1
...are pop-up windows.. . . . are full pages.. Taken any odd pics? Send ... ..
http://www.anomalies-unlimited.com/Odd_Pics.html, score=93, date indexed=December 29, 2005, 8:29 pm

The Official Odd Rods Web Site
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http://www.oddrods.com/, score=92, date indexed=December 30, 2005, 7:39 pm

Trulee Odd Entertainment
...... Odd Show, Truly odd show, fire eating, fire guy dragons breath fire ... Trulee Odd Entertainment, Hamilton, Ontario. (Phone) 905-525-3452 ( ... ..
http://www.truleeoddshow.com/, score=92, date indexed=December 30, 2005, 3:25 pm

Wired News: Google IPO Sets Odd Precedent
...if (catman.isSlotAvailable('leaderboard')) { catman.renderSlot('leaderboard'); } Google IPO Sets Odd Precedent. Page 1 of 1 Breaking News from AP and ... ..
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,64508,00.html, score=91, date indexed=January 28, 2006, 7:13 am

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