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and odd
b. and odd: denoting an indefinite number and qualifying a noun of lower denomination in an otherwise definite expression of quantity or amount; ‘and some’; ‘and a few’. Also without and. Obsolete.
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the world > relative properties > number > mathematical number or quantity > [adjective] > describing particular qualities > indefinite
and odda1438
and odd1634
infinite1660
indeterminate1706
indetermined1706
a1438 Bk. Margery Kempe (1940) i. 7 (MED) Þis creatur..was wondyrlye vexid & labowryd wyth spyritys half ȝer, viij wekys, & odde days.
a1450 ( G. Chaucer Treat. Astrolabe ii. §25 48 Than leveth there 38 degrees and odde minutes.
1481 Perth Guildry 11 Oct. in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue (1983) V. 34/2 Tweching the clame of vjs. grottis and od siluer of the usuale mone of Flandris.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry IV f. xxxiiv When he had reigned .xiii. yeres, v. monthes & odde daies.
1603 H. Petowe Elizabetha quasi Viuens sig. B2 Three thousand and od hundred clowds appere.
1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 43 It is in the latitude of twenty two degrees, odde minutes North.
1671 J. Sharp Midwives Bk. v. x. 297 The Moons Month..that is twenty seven daies and odd minutes.
1714 London Gaz. No. 5213/4 11 Foot odd Inches in the Hold.
1813 R. Wilson Private Diary I. 434 Thirty-eight thousand odd hundred infantry, two thousand odd hundred cavalry.
extracted from oddadj.n.1adv.
and odd
a. In and odd following the noun modified by the numeral. Obsolete (rare in later use).
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a1450 ( tr. Vegetius De Re Militari (Douce) f. 26 (MED) Bitwene þe firste werrus of þe Pynus and þe secounde, þat was twenty ȝere and odde [L. uiginti et quod..annorum].
c1475 (c1399) Mum & Sothsegger (Cambr. Ll.4.14) (1936) Prol. 68 (MED) They shall fele fawtis foure score and odde.
a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1897–1973) 24 (MED) Sex hundreth yeris & od haue I..liffyd.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. cxx The nomber whiche departed..were..fiue hundreth horsemen and odde wel and warlike.
1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 134 Distant sixtie miles and odde.
1642 D. Rogers Naaman 10 Full one thousand six hundred years and odde.
1700 T. D'Urfey Famous Hist. Rise & Fall Massaniello i. i. i. 5 Fifty and odd, and more a coming too.
1720 J. Dennis Invader of his Country ii. iii. 27 For your Voices I have fought,..for your Voices, bear of Wounds two Dozen and odd.
1846 C. Dickens Let. 30 Aug. (1977) IV. 615 Bradbury and Evans's account for the half year is £1100 and odd.
1894 ‘M. Twain’ Pudd'nhead Wilson xviii. 241 What are you thinking of? Go and ask him for three hundred dollars and odd?
1911 J. London Piece of Steak in Sel. Stories (1982) 858 They were eyes that saw everything, that had been trained to see everything through all his twenty years and odd in the ring.
extracted from oddadj.n.1adv.
and odd
b. In and odd forming with the numeral a phrase preceding the noun modified. Now rare (chiefly regional).
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the world > relative properties > number > plurality > fewness > [noun] > a small number of
some fewOE
puckleOE
a litec1290
couple1365
a…or twoa1400
handfulc1443
a wheen (of)1487
and odd1548
sprinkling1561
pair1611
scattering1628
sprinkle1754
c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) 426 Of þe lenþe of Noe lyf..Þe sex hundreth of his age and none odde ȝerez.]
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. clxvjv Had contynued in the English possession, from the yere of our Lord.M.lv.which is.iii. C. & od yeres.
1569 R. Androse tr. ‘Alessio’ (title) A verye excellent and profitable booke conteining sixe hundred foure score and odde experienced medicines.
1584 R. Scot Discouerie Witchcraft iii. v. 46 Bodin confirmeth them with a hundred and odd lies.
1612 W. Symonds Proc. Eng. Colonie Virginia xi. 85 in Narr. Early Virginia (1907) 185 Now wee so quietly followed our businesse that in 3 monthes, we made 3 or 4 Last of Pitch, and tarre, and sope ashes;..of 3 sowes, in one yeare increased 60 and od pigges.
1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 316 We agreed for threescore and odd pistols, which I laid down; but he recanting and demanding more, I withdrew my money.
1688 London Gaz. No. 2356/4 With 200 and odd Pounds.
1704 Boston News-let. 26 June 2/2 Cap. Stevens..who went on shore with about 100 & odd men at the River of Chechopege.
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. i. 109 Two hundred and odd men.
1766 W. Kenrick Falstaff's Wedding i. v. 6 Having..ridden post day and night fourscore and odd miles, to congratulate him on his accession.
1814 F. Burney Wanderer V. ix. lxxvii. 9 Though..a straunger in these parts, till I was married; my feather-in-law, who has lived in them, mon and boy, better than ninety and odd years, [etc.].
1823 Ld. Byron Let. 3 Mar. (1980) X. 115 There remains 5000 and odd pounds.
1865 M. Arnold Ess. Crit. i. 29 Go into ecstasies over the eighty and odd pigeons.
1926 J. Devanny Butcher Shop x. 90 He had deprived himself of his mate, his ‘cobber’ for twenty and odd years.
1930 W. Faulkner As I lay Dying 38 A man..weighing two hundred and odd pounds.
1992 Pioneer on Sunday (Delhi) 13 Sept. 5/2 The five thousand and odd indigenous Nauruans will have to..take urgent steps to restore what is left of their land.
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