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Od(d)is, n. pl. Also: oddes, od(d)s, oidis. [e.m.E. oddes (1542), od(d)s, plur. of Od a. as n.Sense 2 is appar. only Sc.]

1. To make (a person's) oddis evin, ‘to equalise or level his inequalities’, to adjust, atone for or remit his shortcomings or transgressions. c1500-c1512 Dunb. lxxxv. 56.
Implore, adore, thow indeflore, To mak our oddis evyne 1570 Sat. P. xvi. 70.
Quhen ȝe forgaif him all his cryme And maid his oddis euin

2. (Some) smaller additional items of the class in question, an indefinite additional amount, something over. Chiefly sum oddis.Cf. Od a. 2–3.(1) 1525 Acta Conc. MS. XXXV. 130.
Of [£400] steirelingis extending to [£600] grete Flemys money with certane oddis(2) 1565 Cal. Sc. P. II. 142.
[Asking his help in repayment of £120 sterling] and some oddes a1578 Pitsc. I. 305 n. 1.
All the tyme that the Duik of Albanie was in Scottland first and last was fyue ȝeiris with sum oddis and ane half 1584-9 Maxwall Commonpl. Bk. 30 a.
Threttie rehers of Inglis wers And than do pers Sum ods & fywe 1587 Edinb. Test. XVIII. 174 b.
To my mother the pece of blak serge contenyng sax ell and sum oddis in the mekill coffer 1655 Hibbert P. No. 16.
Four barrell [of oil] and some oddes 1690 A. Shields Grievances and Sufferings 34.
The number of the slain … amount too about 400 and some odds(3) 1642 Buchan C. VIII. 181.
My lord Berradaills pairt being in merks and ods

3. Difference, disparity, discrepancy.(a) 1590-1 R. Bruce Serm. 152.
There is great odds betwixt the faith that lurks for a quhill and utters not the self, and the light that is utterlie put out 1596 Dalr. I. 77/16.
In quhilke daylie course thay draue ouer mony ȝeirs with smal odis amangs thame bot amaist ay æqual with thair aduersaris 1623 Craig Abakuk Bisset's Booke 15/1 in Fugitive Poetry II.
Twixt was and is, how various are the ods! 1635 Dickson Wr. 13.
Here is the odds betwixt the godly and the wicked 1642 Aberd. Sheriff Ct. III. 8.
[£8] for the ods and distances of the number of aucht bolls and ane half of meill(b) 1608 Melrose P. I. 46.
That the derth of boottis and schone proceidis not vpoun ony difference and oidis that is betuix the present pryce … and the pryceis whilkis thay gaif

4. Disagreement, variance, dispute, dissension. 1606 Birnie Kirk-b. xix (F 3 b).
But the practicians now keepes vp … as good a reason in oddes that lyke a pittard hes more pith nor [etc.] c1650 Spalding II. 390.
The Joffreyis in Abirdein, whome … he fell in odis with 1662 Forbes Baron Ct. 230.
Or any vther thing that is in oddis in the said Breas