Defn: the odds and ends. Specif.: (Printing) Any separate small part or page in a book, other than the text, such as the title page, contents, etc.
A miscellaneous collection of riddles, charms, gnomic verses, and "oddments" of different kinds. Saintsbury.
ODDNESS
Odd"ness, n.
1. The state of being odd, or not even. Take but one from three, and you not only destroy the oddness, but also the essence of that number. Fotherby.
2. Singularity; strangeness; eccentricity; irregularity; uncouthness; as, the oddness of dress or shape; the oddness of an event. Young.
ODDS
Odds, n. sing. & pl. Etym: [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. "Preëminent by so much odds." Milton. "The fearful odds of that unequal fray." Trench. The odds Is that we scare 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 s "cope….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 phraze 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 ends, that which is left; remnants; fragments; refuse; scraps; miscellaneous articles. "My brain is filled…with all kinds of odds and ends." W. Irving.
ODE
Ode, n. Etym: [F., fr. L. ode, oda, Gr. vad to speak, sing. Cf.
Comedy, Melody, Monody.]
Defn: A short poetical composition proper to be set to music or sung; a lyric poem; esp., now, a poem characterized by sustained noble sentiment and appropriate dignity of style. Hangs odes upon hawthorns and elegies on brambles. Shak. O! run; prevent them with thy humble ode, And lay it lowly at his blessed feet. Milton. Ode factor, one who makes, or who traffics in, odes; — used contemptuously.