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Definition of Odds
Odds Odds Odds ([o^]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. ``Pre["e]minent 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.]
