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Show OB OD hi¢ right hand the fign fcorpio, in his left a bafke of fervifes Peacham Ocror'prIcaL. adj. Having eight fides Dis& Latin. Di& OcTo'GeENaRY. adj. [oftogeni Of eighty years of age O'cronary. adj. [offonarius, Lat.] Belonging te the number eight Dig Ocrono'cunar. adj. [ofo and wvculus. Having eight eyes Moft animals are binocular ; fpiders for the mof part offonocular and fome fenocular Derbam Ocrore'TaLovus. adj. [4de and wdard Gr.] Having eighu flower leaves. Di& O'crosTyLE. 7 /. [ilo and sh@, Gr. In the ancient archite&ure is the fac of a building or ordonnance containin eight columns Harris O'crurLE. adj. [o&uplus, Lat.] Eigh fold Diéa O'CULAR. adj. [oculaire, French; fro oculus, Lat.] Depending on the eye known by the eye Prove my love a whore Be fure of it : give me the ocular proof Or thou hadft better have been borna dog Shat He that would not believe the menace -of Go at firft, it may be doubted whether before an ocu . Jar example he believed the curfe at firft.- Brown O'curarny. adv. [from ocular. the obfervation of the eye The fam Auftin is ocularly confirmed by Vives upo Browwn O'curLaTE. adj. [oculatus, Lat. Havin eyes; knowing by the eye O'curist T #. / [fro One who profefle of the eyes ocufus Latin. to cure diftemper 1f there be a fpeck in the eye, we take it off but he were a firange ocu/if} who would pull out th eye Bacon I am no oculiff, and if T fhould go to help one ey and put out the other, we thould have an untowar bufinefs O'CULUS &ei. [Latin. L' Eftrange The oculus beli of jewellers, probably of Pliny is an accidental variety of the agat kind; havin a grey horny ground, circular delineations, and fpot in the middle, refembling the eye; whence it name Wosdward ODD. 4dj. [udda, Swedifh. 1. No even no numbers divifibl This is the third time int equa T hop Good luck lies in odd numbers Shake[peare ‘What verity there is in that numeral conceit, i the lateral divifion of man by even and odd; afcribing the odd unto the right fide, and the even unt the left; and fo by parity or imparity of letter in mens names, to determine misfortunes. Brouzn 2. More than a round number; indefinite ly exceeding any number fpecified The account of the profits of Ulfter, from th . fifth year of Edward IlI. until the eighth, d amount but to nine hundred and odd pounds Dawies on Ireland Sixteen hundred and odd years after the eart was made, it was deftroyed in a deluge of water Burnet's Theory The year, without regard to days, ends with a odd day and odd hours, ¢dd minutes, and odd fe conds of minutes fo that it cannot be meafure by any even number of days, hours, er minutes Holder . Particular ; uncouth ; extraordinary not like others; not to be numbere amon any clafs tempt or diflike In a fenfe of con Het madnefs hath the odduft frame of fenfe men were to be alked concer in Such a dependency of thing on thing fetus, whether it wer 3 man o meet withkdifi'erent anfwers As cer I heard in madnefs. Shak. Meaf. for Meaf Her aukward love indeed vwa She and her Polly were too ne srdlififez As mafters in the clare obf yre Of thee, kind boy, I afk no red and white T]p make up my delight No odd becoming graces Black eyes, or little know not what's in faces With various light your yes allur,e A flaming yellow here the fpread Draw off in blue, or char e in red Yet from thefe colours oddl mix'd Your fight upon the whole i fix'd. Suckling When I'broke loofe from writers who have em ployed their wit and parts in propagating of vice I did not queftion but I fhould be treated as an od kind of a fellow Spectatar No fool Pythagoras was theugh He made his lift'ning fcholars ftand Their mouth &ill coverd with their hand Elfe, may be, fome odd thinking youth Might have refus'd to let his ear Attend the mufick of the {pheres Prior This blue colour being made by nothing elfe tha by retlection of a fpecular fuperficies, feems fo od a phenomenon, and fo difficult to be explained b the vulgar hypothefis of philofophers, thatI coul not but think it deferved to be taken notice of. Neawton's Opticks So proud I am no flave So impudenit T own myfelf no knave So odd, my country's ruin makes me grave They had feen a great b the ground very oddly fhaped Foflils are very oddly and elegantl cording to the modification o thegir coi(fit:cp:? En?l; ot the cavities they are formed ip O'powness . /. [from odd. 1. The ftate of being not eyen 2. Strangenefs; particularity; uncog nefs; irregularity Coveting to recommend himGel t po te Cicero begged it as an alms of t e hiftorians, t remembe his confulfhip: and obferye the o '} of the event; all their hiftories ar loft, and th vanit of his requeft ftands recorded in his ow writings D y A knave is apprehenfive of being difeav en ered Poge To counterpoife this hero of the mode and this habitual concern puts an oddnefsinto i leoks Some for renown are fingulat, and odd What other men diflike is fure to pleaf Of all mankind thefe dear antipodes 4. Not noted; not taken int mon account ; unheeded Collier My wife fell into a violent diforder, an] y a little difcompofed at the oddnefs of the accident "Soi Young the com- I left him cooling of the air with fighs In an odd angle of the iffe Shake[peare's Tempeft Obpbps. #. /. [from odd. 1. Inequality; excefs of either compare Between thefe two cafes there are great odd §. Strange; unaccountable; fantaftical Hooker particular We bear our civil fwords and native fire As far as France Without co-partner Cromwel Milton's Paradife L with odds of number and of fate Remov'd this bulwark of the church and ftate. WA"BIJ 7. Unlucky All thefe, thus unequally furnithed with truth The truft Othello puts him in On fome odd time of his infirmity Will fhake this ifland Shakefpeare's Othello and advanced in knowledge, I fuppofe of equa natural parts ; all the odds between themrhas_ bee the different feope that has been given to their un 8. Unlikely in appearance; improper derftandings to range in Ladka Judging is balancing an account, and determining on which fide the odds lie Lock z. More than an even wager; more likel than the contrary Since every man by nature is very pronetot the beft of himfelf, and of his own condition is cdds but he will find a fhrewd temptation. Satb The prefbyterian party endeayoured one dl:y introduce a debate about repealing the teft¢ :nl when there appeared at leaft four to one edds g'gwifi them Some bifhop beftows upon them fome alln:gfl- all combine againft it. 1. Not evenly z. Strangely; particularly; irregularly unaccountably ; uncouthly; contraril to cuftom How oddly will it found, that Muft afk my child forgivenefs Shakefp. Tempef One man is prefled, with poverty, and l ok fomewhat oddly upon it Collier on the Spleen The dreams of fleeping men are made up o th waking man's ideas, though for the moft par oddl put together Locke This child was near being excluded out o th fpecies of man barely by his fhape. It is c rtain figure a little more oddly turned had caf him, an be had been executed Locke The real effence of fubftances we know n t; an therefore are fo undetermined in our omina eflences, which we make ourfelves, tha if fevera Shakefpeare's Henry I I chiefly who enjo So far the happier lot, enjoying the Pre-eminent by fo muchodds. Miltor's Pars Lif Shall I give him to partak Full happinefs with me ? or rather not But keep the odds of knowledge in my pow' The odd man to perform all three perfeétly is Joannes Sturmius Afchan's Schoolmafer and oddnefs, fhould, I think, be writ. ten with one 4; buat the writers almof I will lay the odds that ere this year expire Young Mr. Locke's Effay would be a very odd book fo a man to make himfelf mafter of, who would get reputation by critical writings. Addifon's Spectator O'pbpoLy. adv [from odd 'This wor The cafe is yet not like, but there appearet great odds between them Spenfer on Ircland How ftrange or odd foe'er I bear myfelf As I, perchance, hereafter fhall think meet To put an antick difpofition on. Shakefp. Hamlet It is an odd way of uniting parties to deprive majority of part of their ancient right, by conferring it on a faction, who had never any right at all Savift Patients have fometimes coveted odd things whic have relieved them; as falt and vinegar\Arbuthnot With fuch odd maxims to thy flocks retreat 6. Uncommon with the other There are yet mifling fome few 0dd lads that yo remember not Shakefpeare's Tempefs Nor furnith mirth for minifters of ftate fhaged Swif fiderable benefice, whe 'tis odd_s they a're' Irl'!l' encumbered with a numerous family. Swiff'sM 3. Advantage; fuperiority And tho® the fword, fome underftood In force had much the odds of wood *T'was nothing fo; both fides were balan So equal, none knew which T«vas valiant'l;iydim Quarrel ; debate; difpute I,can‘t fpea . O 010 k Sh odd vi pe thi t in Any begin ‘What is the mghtf Almott at odds with the moraing, whic 1 o s wli 18 : Shapr 4 |