Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Odds \Odds\ ([o^]dz), n. sing. & pl. [See {Odd}, a.]
   1. Difference in favor of one and against another; excess of
      one of two things or numbers over the other; inequality;
      advantage; superiority; hence, excess of chances;
      probability. ``Pre["e]minent by so much odds.'' --Milton.
      ``The fearful odds of that unequal fray.'' --Trench.

            The odds Is that we scarce are men and you are gods.
                                                  --Shak.

            There appeared, at least, four to one odds against
            them.                                 --Swift.

            All the odds between them has been the different
            scope . . . given to their understandings to range
            in.                                   --Locke.

            Judging is balancing an account and determining on
            which side the odds lie.              --Locke.

   2. Quarrel; dispute; debate; strife; -- chiefly in the phrase
      at odds.

            Set them into confounding odds.       --Shak.

            I can not speak Any beginning to this peevish odds.
                                                  --Shak.

   {At odds}, in dispute; at variance. ``These squires at odds
      did fall.'' --Spenser. ``He flashes into one gross crime
      or other, that sets us all at odds.'' --Shak.

   {It is odds}, it is probable. [Obs.]