Some Oddes are, at the present time (1908), employed at the Mysore manganese mines.
The Oddes or Voddas, who are commonly called Wudders, are summed up by Mr. H.
A further legend is current among the Oddes to the effect that, when Siva and Parvati were walking one sultry day upon the earth, they got very hot and thirsty.
In Mysore numbers of Oddes are now permanently settled in the outskirts of large towns, where both sexes find employment as sweepers, etc.
By some Oddes the corpse is carried to the burial-ground wrapped up in a new cloth, and carried in a dhubati (thick coarse cloth) by four men.
The marriage rites are, as a rule, very simple, but, in some places, the Oddes have begun to imitate the marriage ceremonies of the Balijas.
Some Oddes have settled down as agriculturists and contractors, and some are very prosperous.
A legend is current to the effect that, long ago, the Oddes were ordered to dig a tank, to enable the Devatas and men to obtain water.
The Oddes of Coimbatore, in the Tamil country, have elaborated both the marriage and funeral ceremonies, and copy those of the Balijas and Vellalas.
According to another legend, the Oddes were employed by God, who had assumed a human form, and was living amongst them.
The Oddes are in some places Vaishnavites, in others Saivites, but they also worship minor deities, such as Ellamma, Ankamma, etc.
On one occasion, God had to perform a certain ceremony, so he gave the Oddes an advance of three days' pay, and ordered them not to worry him.
He also filled a large pumpkin with money, and buried it in a field, where theOddes were working.
The following note on a reputed cure for snake poisoning used by Oddes was communicated to me by Mr. Gustav Haller.
The Mannu Oddes eat rats, porcupines, and scaly ant-eaters or pangolins (Manis pentadactyla).
They resemble greatly the Oddes (Voddas or Wudders) in appearance, customs, and manner of earning a living.
In like manner, the Uru Oddes are those who have abandoned a nomad life, and settled in villages.
O but I feare the fickle freakes (quoth shee) 2 Of fortune +false+, and oddes of armes in field.
Why dame (quoth he) what oddes can euer bee, 4 Where both do fight alike, to win or yield?
They are doubtless Oddes or Wudder navvies, who have migrated from their home in the Telugu country.
Even at the present day, the Oddes and others refer their disputes to the Desayi, and not to their own caste headman.
Fiue men to twentie: though the oddes be great, I doubt not, Vnckle, of our Victorie.
Twas oddes belike, when valiant Warwick fled; Oft haue I heard his praises in Pursuite, But ne're till now, his Scandall of Retire War.
The following note on a reputed cure for snake poisoning, used by the Oddes (navvies), was communicated to me by Mr Gustav Haller.
An interesting rite in connection with pregnancy ceremonies among the Oddes (navvies) is the presentation of a fowl or two to the pregnant woman by her maternal uncle.
Almost at oddes with morning, which is which Macb.
Come damn'd Earth, Thou common whore of Mankinde, that puttes oddes Among the rout of Nations, I will make thee Do thy right Nature.
Vntill the Goose came out of doore, Staying the oddes by adding foure Pag.
But now 'tis oddes beyond Arithmetick, And Manhood is call'd Foolerie, when it stands Against a falling Fabrick.
Say: if my Father render faire returne, It is against my will: for I desire Nothing but Oddes with England.
I do not feare it, I haue seene you both: But since he is better'd, we haue therefore oddes Laer.
Verie well my Lord, Your Grace hath laide the oddes a'th' weaker side King.
You wil take little delight in it, I can tell you there is such oddes in the man: In pitie of the challengers youth, I would faine disswade him, but he will not bee entreated.
Nay, it shall nere be said, while England stands, That Alexander Iden an Esquire of Kent, Tooke oddes to combate a poore famisht man.
L O but I feare the fickle freakes (quoth shee) Of fortune false, and oddes of armes° in field.
ODDES OF ARMES, chances of mishap in arms due to some advantage of one's antagonist.
Why Dame (quoth he) what oddescan ever bee, Where both do fight alike, to win or yield?
The name forOddes who practice thieving as a profession.
As with the Oddes and Upparavas, there is a saying that a Jogi widow may mount the marriage dais (i.
Snib, snub] And yet (God wote) small oddes I often see Twixt them that aske, and them that asked bee.
What oddes twixt Irus and old Inachus, Twixt best and worst, when both alike are dedd, If none of neither mention should make, Nor out of dust their memories awake?
World runnes on Wheels; orOddes Betwixt Carts and Coaches, The, 81 Wright, Edward, 33 n.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "oddes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
