" [Sidenote: Od.

Col. JAMES FISK, Jr. Fools, 'od rot 'em! ..............................

Horace, Od. i. 12, ll. 37, 38: "Regulum, et Scauros animaeque magnae Prodigum Paulum.

l=eoht inne st=od, efne sw=a of hefene h=adre sc=ineð rodores candel.

" Of these eleven words, seven may be recognized: l=eoht (light), inne (in), st=od (stood), of, hefene (heaven),sc=ineð (shineth), candel (candle).

swurd-l=eoma st=od swylce eal Finns-buruh f=yrenu w=aere.

Od. 24. 3911.

Od. 24. 3918.

Od. 25. 4800.

Od. 11. 5028.

od up man met gig god pup can pet big sod cup pan set pig pod sup at og an ar ir cat dog van are ire rat log vane hare fire grate clog vanes hares fires *

It is observable, however, that, in some instances, it is not one letter, but two, that he marks; as in the words, "m=o=od, h=o=use."Ib., p. 239; 12mo, 192.

[1.] "A vowel or syllable is long, when the vowel or vowels contained in it are slowly joined in pronunciation with the following letters; as, 'F=all, b=ale, m=o=od, h=o=use, f=eature.'

"A vowel or syllable is long, when the accent is on the vowel; which occasions it to be slowly joined in pronunciation with the following letters: as, 'F=all, b=ale, m=o=od, h=o=use, f=eature.'

The duke shrugged his shoulders, and spitting on the ground, said, 'Od's body, Sir Bayard, I would like to get rid of all my enemies in that way; but, since you do not think it well, the matter shall stand over; whereof, unless God apply a remedy, both you and I will repent us."

"'Od's body," said a Spanish captain shut up in a fort which the French were attacking, and which he had been charged to defend, "we are being killed here by bolts that fall from heaven; go we and fight with men;" and he sallied from the fort with all his people, to go and take part in the general battle.

I would not suffer it: See him I would again, and to his teeth too: Od's precious, I would ring him such a lesson Cel.

"Od's thunder!" cried Herse; "breast strap and blankets I tell you, and a bundle of linen I left behind in the pigsty.

REICHENBACH, KARL, BARON VON, expert in the industrial arts, particularly in chemical manufacture; he was a zealous student of animal magnetism, and the discoverer of Od (1788-1869).

(od) Beloved by Roland, 149. AU'DOIN.

THE-OD-O-RI'CUS.

The first remark he made was an innocent remonstrance with his friend the host, "Od, Charlie Brown, what gars ye hae sic lang steps to your front door?

Od. iii., 3, 61, 62, somewhat thus:'The fortunes of Troy renascent under sorrowful omen shall be repeated with sad catastrophe.'

"Od," says John, "Tam, that's jist the way wi' you when there's ony fash or trouble.

Od, sir, I never saw ane that could come up to yoursell at that.

Hudson had returned when I got back, and together we discussed the house, the position, and everything we could think of in connection with the business, as we sat on the floor and had our midday meal of bully beef and biscuits, rounded up by tea and plum and apple jam spread neat from the tin on odd corners of broken biscuits.

" He agreed, and we both decided to pile up all the odd bricks, which were lying outside at the back of the house, against the perforated wall, and then sleep there in a little easier state of mind.

There was one trench that was so obscured along its front by odd stumps of trees that I decided the only good spot for a machine gun was right at one end, on a road which led up to Messines.

Shell holes everywhere; the old, grey grave stones and slabs cracked and sticking about at odd angles.

Tombstones lying about and sticking up at odd angles all over the torn-up ground.

A few of her letters to him have been published; and it is impossible to read them without discerning in them all the powers which afterwards produced Evelina and Cecilia, the quickness in catching every odd peculiarity of character and manner, the skill in grouping, the humour, often richly comic, sometimes even farcical.

With a little trouble, the zealous reader of the "Biographia Literaria" may trace in these volumes the whole course of mental struggle and self-evolvement narrated in that odd but interesting work; but he will see the track marked in light; the notions become images, the images glorified, and not unfrequently the abstruse position stamped clearer by the poet than by the psychologist.

The nine hundred and odd letters of the Ciceronian collection are most of them neither mere communications nor yet rhetorical exercises, but real letters, the intercourse of intimate friends at a distance, in which their inmost thoughts can often be seen.

In the discussion of the subject matter any amount of comment was freely allowed to the master, who indeed was expected to have at his fingers' ends explanations of all sorts of allusions, and thus to enable the boys to pick up a great deal of odd knowledge and a certain amount of history, mixed up of course with a large percentage of valueless mythology.

It is a little odd in the choice of words, perhaps a trifle rhetorical.

The rest of the crowd were mainly peasantry with basket-loads of stuff for market; but there was a liberal sprinkling among them of all the odds and ends of the Levant, with a Jew here and there, the inevitable Russian priest, and a dozen odd lots, of as many nationalities, whom it would have been difficult to classify.

So whenever the despot was in the city he conferred on Yussuf the inestimable privilege of supplying him with coffee at odd moments, under threat of the bastinado if the stuff were not suitably sweet and hot.

"How odd!" said Erminia.

In odd hours one might find Joseph, the steward, angling on the coral wall for the black and gold fish, and a shout from the balcony would bring him to the swift succor of a thirsty member.

We were an odd company: Llewellyn, a Welsh-Tahitian; Landers, a British New-Zealander; McHenry, Scotch-American; Polonsky, Polish-French; Schlyter, the Swedish tailor; David, an American vanilla-grower; "Lying Bill," English; and I, American.

They thought it not at all odd, apparently, that a princess of their race should be going to the waterfalls with a foreigner, and they beamed on me to assure me of their interest and understanding.

Although I heard odd tales at the consulate, it was at the parc de Bougainville that I met the gentleman of the beach intimately.

CRUNCHER (Jerry), an odd-job man in Tellson's bank.

San Francisco is essentially an out-of-door city, with three hundred odd days of clement weather, made for the display of light raiment, whether it be organdie dresses, sports togs or afternoon frocks.

et al. attempt to revive exploded error concerning, form of, origin of, in Eng., odd notions of some grammarians concerning the regular formation of exceptions or irregularities in the formation of Poss. case, PEI.

When this had become reduced to a trickle, and then to odd pieces that had worked down about the heel, the cap held a splendid treasure.

Even so was each hour of their living touched with odd notions of God and with lunacies as to God's kindness.

" It is highly characteristic of Mr. Gladstone that, when this letter was shown to him by its recipient as a specimen of epistolary oddity, he read it, not with a smile, but with a portentous frown, and, handing it back, sternly asked, "What does the fellow mean by quoting an engagement entered into by my predecessor as binding on me?" It is not only clergy "defrauded" of expected dignities that write odd letters.

" "Odd men," quoth Bishop Thorold, "write odd letters," and so do odd women.

Used familiarly and figuratively for 'strange,' 'odd,' 'peculiar.' UN PENSÉE DE TRÈS BON SENSPleine de sens.