Ŏd'ys-sey, n.

n. [Lat. Odyssea, Gr. Ὀδυσσεία, from Ὀδυσσεύς, Ulysses; Fr. Odyssée, It. Odissea, Sp. Odisea.] An epic poem attributed to Homer, the subject being the return of Ulysses from Troy to Ithaca.

Œ, the English representative of the Greek diphthong οι, has the sound of e, and in many works in the English language, and to some extent in this work, is replaced by e.