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Hazard   /hˈæzərd/   Listen
noun
Hazard  n.  
1.
A game of chance played with dice.
2.
The uncertain result of throwing a die; hence, a fortuitous event; chance; accident; casualty. "I will stand the hazard of the die."
3.
Risk; danger; peril; as, he encountered the enemy at the hazard of his reputation and life. "Men are led on from one stage of life to another in a condition of the utmost hazard."
4.
(Billiards) Holing a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard).
5.
Anything that is hazarded or risked, as the stakes in gaming. "Your latter hazard."
6.
(Golf) Any place into which the ball may not be safely played, such as bunkers, furze, water, sand, or other kind of bad ground.
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.
Synonyms: Danger; risk; chance. See Danger.


verb
Hazard  v. t.  (past & past part. hazarded; pres. part. hazarding)  
1.
To expose to the operation of chance; to put in danger of loss or injury; to venture; to risk. "Men hazard nothing by a course of evangelical obedience." "He hazards his neck to the halter."
2.
To venture to incur, or bring on. "I hazarded the loss of whom I loved." "They hazard to cut their feet."
Synonyms: To venture; risk; jeopard; peril; endanger.


Hazard  v. i.  To try the chance; to encounter risk or danger.





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"Hazard" Quotes from Famous Books



... mislaid her glasses, worked her shuttle at hazard in and out of that picture of intricate pattern called Life, and having tangled and knotted together the crimson thread of passion, the golden thread of youth and the honest brown of a deep, undemonstrative love, she left the disentanglement of the muddle in the hands ...
— The Hawk of Egypt • Joan Conquest
... tried quivering flight, and brown Hesperiidae, "bedouins of the pathless air," buzzed in vanishing eccentricity. But it was not for these that I lingered long on the seaward crest. There below me lay the bay that the exploring Pilgrims entered at such hazard, that but the day before had been blotted out with a freezing storm and gray with snow, now smiling in unforgettable beauty at my feet, bringing irresistibly to ...
— Old Plymouth Trails • Winthrop Packard
... While walking almost at hazard, following this bat, looking at this manure of the birds, respiring this dust, in this obscurity among the cobwebs and scampering rats, we came to a dark corner in which, on a big wheelbarrow, I could just distinguish ...
— The Memoirs of Victor Hugo • Victor Hugo
... The initials of my name, still legible, appeared rudely carved on the posts—a boyish propensity which most of us have indulged; and I well remember ministering to its gratification wherever I durst hazard the experiment, when first initiated into the mystery of hewing out these important letters with a ...
— Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2) • John Roby
... you, my dear Mrs. Jameson? Sojourning in Bohemian castles; or wandering among the ruins of old Athens? Which of your many plans, or dreams of plans have you put into execution? I am both curious and anxious to know something of your proceedings, and shall dispatch this at a hazard to your brother-in-law's, where I suppose your movements will always be known, and ...
— Records of Later Life • Frances Anne Kemble


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