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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



... the work of naturalists for centuries past; and although they did not know what they were doing, it is now evident to evolutionists that they were tracing the lines of genetic relationship. For, be it observed, a scientific or natural classification differs very much from a popular or hap-hazard classification, and the difference consists in this, that while a popular classification is framed with exclusive reference to the external appearance of organisms, a scientific classification is made with reference to the whole ...
— The Scientific Evidences of Organic Evolution • George John Romanes
... emptying his pipe, "you have stated a universal truth." He pushed a smoldering log with his foot toward the remnants of the embers. "Suppose I were so minded to venture"—and he mentioned a modest sum—"in this hazard and we patched up ...
— The Strollers • Frederic S. Isham
... himself to the Prince's formidable manoeuvres. A little further off, he found a position much more favourable; there he firmly posted his force, determined to give battle. In vain did his officers urge him not to hazard an action, not to risk the last army which remained to the monarchy, and to confine himself to covering Gien whilst awaiting the coming of Hocquincourt. "No," replied he, "we must conquer ...
— Political Women (Vol. 1 of 2) • Sutherland Menzies
... pity that the noble Moor Should hazard such a place as his own second With one of an ingraft infirmity. It were an honest action to say So ...
— A Book of the Play - Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character • Dutton Cook
... complained of dumb ague, but witness had never been able to detect any positive disease. He did not know that he had any family. He regarded him as a person of unsound intellect, who believed himself a member and the victim of some secret society. If he were to hazard an opinion, he would say deceased ...
— The Dynamiter • Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny van de Grift Stevenson


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