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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.
   
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   The uncertain result of throwing a die; hence, a fortuitous event; chance; accident; casualty.
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   I will stand the hazard of the die.
   Shak.
   
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   Risk; danger; peril; as, he encountered the enemy at the hazard of his reputation and life.
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   Men are led on from one stage of life to another in a condition of the utmost hazard.
   Rogers.
   
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   (Billiards) Holing a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard).
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   Anything that is hazarded or risked, as the stakes in gaming. “Your latter hazard.”  
   Shak.
   
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   (Golf) Any place into which the ball may not be safely played, such as bunkers, furze, water, sand, or other kind of bad ground.
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   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.
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   Hazard, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hazarded; p. pr. & vb. n. Hazarding.] [Cf. F. hasarder. See Hazard, n.]
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   To expose to the operation of chance; to put in danger of loss or injury; to venture; to risk.
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   Men hazard nothing by a course of evangelical obedience.
   John Clarke.
   
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   He hazards his neck to the halter.
   Fuller.
   
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   To venture to incur, or bring on.
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   I hazarded the loss of whom I loved.
   Shak.
   
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   They hazard to cut their feet.
   Landor.
   Syn. -- To venture; risk; jeopard; peril; endanger.
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   Hazard , v. i. To try the chance; to encounter risk or danger.
   Shak.
   
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