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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold [syn: end, remainder, remnant, oddment]
2: something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting [syn: curio, curiosity, oddity, oddment, peculiarity, rarity]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1796 1. a. something left over ; remnant b. plural odds and ends 2. something odd ; oddity

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 an odd article; something left over. 2 (in pl.) miscellaneous articles. 3 Brit. Printing matter other than the main text.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Oddment Odd"ment, n. [Odd + -ment.] 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(oddments) Oddments are unimportant objects of any kind, usually ones that are old or left over from a larger group of things. ...searching street markets for interesting jewellery and oddments. N-COUNT