GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English
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Hazard , n. [F. hasard, Sp. azar an unforeseen disaster or accident, an unfortunate card or throw at dice, prob. fr. Ar. zahr, zār, a die, which, with the article al the, would give azzahr, azzār.]
- A game of chance played with dice.Chaucer.1913 Webster
- The uncertain result of throwing a die; hence, a fortuitous event; chance; accident; casualty.1913 Webster
I will stand the hazard of the die.
Shak.1913 Webster - Risk; danger; peril; as, he encountered the enemy at the hazard of his reputation and life.1913 Webster
Men are led on from one stage of life to another in a condition of the utmost hazard.
Rogers.1913 Webster - (Billiards) Holing a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard).1913 Webster
- Anything that is hazarded or risked, as the stakes in gaming. “Your latter hazard.”Shak.1913 Webster
- (Golf) Any place into which the ball may not be safely played, such as bunkers, furze, water, sand, or other kind of bad ground.Webster 1913 Suppl.
Hazard table, a table on which hazard is played, or any game of chance for stakes. -- To run the hazard, to take the chance or risk. -- to hazard, at risk; liable to suffer damage or loss.
Syn. -- Danger; risk; chance. See Danger.
1913 Webster
- A game of chance played with dice.
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Hazard, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hazarded; p. pr. & vb. n. Hazarding.] [Cf. F. hasarder. See Hazard, n.]1913 Webster
- To expose to the operation of chance; to put in danger of loss or injury; to venture; to risk.1913 Webster
Men hazard nothing by a course of evangelical obedience.
John Clarke.1913 WebsterHe hazards his neck to the halter.
Fuller.1913 Webster - To venture to incur, or bring on.1913 Webster
I hazarded the loss of whom I loved.
Shak.1913 WebsterThey hazard to cut their feet.
Landor.Syn. -- To venture; risk; jeopard; peril; endanger.
1913 Webster
- To expose to the operation of chance; to put in danger of loss or injury; to venture; to risk.
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Hazard , v. i. To try the chance; to encounter risk or danger.Shak.1913 Webster