odder

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Your ordinarie rimers vse very much their measures in the odde as nine and eleuen, and the sharpe accent vpon the last sillable, which therefore makes him go ill fauouredly and like a minstrels musicke.

From The Arte of English Poesie by Puttenham, George

Mrs. Turner do tell me very odde stories how Mrs. Williams do receive the applications of people, and hath presents, and she is the hand that receives all, while my Lord do the business. 12th.

From The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Braybrooke, Richard Griffin, Baron

The ancient fables, whose relickes doe yet remain, namely, Lancelot of the Lake, Pierceforest, Tristram, Giron the Courteous, etc., doe beare witnesse of this odde vanitie.

From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham

Then, how odde soever your braines be, or your wisedomes, make your licence the same, and spare not.

From Shakespeare's First Folio by Shakespeare, William

Then, how odde soever your braines be, or your wisedomes, make your licence the same and spare not.

From The Facts About Shakespeare by Nielson, William Allan