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(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. "Preminent 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. Shak. There appeared, at least, four to one odds against them. Swift. All the odds between them has been the different scope . . . given to their understandings to range in. Locke. Judging is balancing an account and determining on which side the odds lie. Locke. 2. Quarrel; dispute; debate; strife; -- chiefly in the phrase at odds. Set them into confounding odds. Shak. I can not speak Any beginning to this peevish odds. Shak. 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 スポンサード リンク
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