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Webster 1913 Edition

Hazard

Haz′ard

(hăz′ẽrd)
,
Noun.
[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
.]
1.
A game of chance played with dice.
Chaucer.
2.
The uncertain result of throwing a die; hence, a fortuitous event; chance; accident; casualty.
I will stand the
hazard
of the die.
Shakespeare
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
.
Rogers.
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.”
Shak.
Syn. – Danger; risk; chance. See
Danger
.

Haz′ard

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Hazarded
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Hazarding
.]
[Cf. F.
hasarder
. See
Hazard
,
Noun.
]
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.
John Clarke.
He
hazards
his neck to the halter.
Fuller.
2.
To venture to incur, or bring on.
I
hazarded
the loss of whom I loved.
Shakespeare
Syn. – To venture; risk; jeopard; peril; endanger.

Haz′ard

(hăz′ẽrd)
,
Verb.
I.
To try the chance; to encounter risk or danger.
Shak.

Webster 1828 Edition

Hazard

HAZ'ARD

,
Noun.
[L. casus, a fall, and ard, the common termination.]
1.
Chance; accident; casualty; a fortuitous event; that which falls or comes suddenly or unexpectedly, the cause of which is unknown, or whose operation is unforeseen or unexpected.
I will stand the hazard of the die.
2.
Danger; peril; risk. 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.
3.
A game at dice.
To run the hazard, to risk; to take the chance; to do or neglect to do something, when the consequences are not foreseen, and not within the powers of calculation.

HAZ'ARD

,
Verb.
T.
To expose to chance; to put in danger of loss or injury; to venture; to risk; as, to hazard life to save a friend; to hazard an estate on the throw of a dice; to hazard salvation for temporal pleasure.
Men hazard nothing by a course of evangelical obedience.
1.
To venture to incur, or bring on; as, to hazard the loss or reputation.

HAZ'ARD

,
Verb.
I.
To try the chance; to adventure; to run the risk or danger.
Pause a day or two, before you hazard--

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