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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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Etymology of 'Hazard'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Hazard" Quotes from Famous Books

... up the nearest road, without considering whether it was the right one. He had scarcely gone ten steps, however, when a musket-ball entered the head of his horse, which fell, entangling D'Harmental's leg. Instantly eight or ten cavaliers sprang upon him; he fired one pistol by hazard, and put the other to his head, to blow his brains out, but he had not time, for two musketeers seized him by the arms, and four others dragged him from beneath the horse. The pretended prince descended from the carriage, and turned out to be a valet in disguise; ...

— The Conspirators - The Chevalier d'Harmental • Alexandre Dumas (Pere)

... her transient claim for mercy. The solemn prayer of the liturgy singles out her sorrows from the multiplied trials of life, to plead for her in the hour of peril. God forbid that any member of the profession to which she trusts her life, doubly precious at that eventful period, should hazard it negligently, ...

— The Harvard Classics Volume 38 - Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) • Various

... curtain which concealed a single pane of glass fixed in the wall of the last-named apartment, about five feet from its flooring, could not only look down upon any guests in the back-room without any great hazard of being observed (the glass being in a dark angle of the wall, between which and a large upright beam the observer had to thrust himself), but could, by applying his ear to the partition, ascertain ...

— Oliver Twist • Charles Dickens

... do any thing. Lord Chetwynde watched over her as a son might watch over a mother. These two thus stood before him as a standing menace, an ever-threatening danger in that path from which other dangers had been removed at such a hazard and at such a cost. What could he do? Nothing. It was for Hilda to act in this emergency. He himself was powerless. He feared also that Hilda herself did not realize the full extent of her danger. He saw how abstracted ...

— The Cryptogram - A Novel • James De Mille

... before I remarked that I never by any hazard had a dream of Master B., or of anything belonging to him. But, the instant I awoke from sleep, at whatever hour of the night, my thoughts took him up, and roamed away, trying to attach his initial letter to something that would fit it and keep ...

— The Signal-Man #33 • Charles Dickens

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