Odd /(ŏd)/

Odd

a.
  1. Not paired with another, or remaining over after a pairing; without a mate; unmatched; single; as, an odd shoe; an odd glove.
  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.
    I hope good luck lies in odd numbers.
  3. Left over after a definite round number has been taken or mentioned; indefinitely, but not greatly, exceeding a specified number; extra.
    Sixteen hundred and odd years after the earth was made, it was destroyed in a deluge.
    — T. Burnet.
    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.
    The odd man, to perform all things perfectly, is, in my poor opinion, Joannes Sturmius.
    — Ascham.
    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.
    — Spectator.