VividLex

Home / Thesaurus / oddment

Thesaurus: oddment

a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold

Full dictionary entry Search Lens associations

Related headwords

Definitions

  1. n. a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold
  2. n. something unusualperhaps worthy of collecting
  3. An odd thing, or one that is left over, disconnected, fragmentary, or the like; something that is separated or disconnected from its fellows; esp. (in pl.), 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.
  4. An odd thing, or one that is left over, disconnected,fragmentary, or the like; something that is separated or disconnectedfrom its fellows; esp. (in pl.),
  5. n:100 n a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold n something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting