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Solicitor :: Solicitor (n.) An attorney or advocate; one who represents another in court; -- formerly, in English practice, the professional designation of a person admitted to practice in a court of chancery or equity. See the Note under Attorney..

Handicap :: Handicap (n.) An allowance of a certain amount of time or distance in starting, granted in a race to the competitor possessing inferior advantages; or an additional weight or other hindrance imposed upon the one possessing superior advantages, in order to equalize, as much as possible, the chances of success; as, the handicap was five seconds, or ten pounds, and the like..

Peradventure :: Peradventure (adv. & conj.) By chance; perhaps; it may be; if; supposing.

Chanceably :: Chanceably (adv.) By chance.

Encounter :: Encounter (adv.) To come against face to face; to meet; to confront, either by chance, suddenly, or deliberately; especially, to meet in opposition or with hostile intent; to engage in conflict with; to oppose; to struggle with; as, to encounter a friend in traveling; two armies encounter each other; to encounter obstacles or difficulties, to encounter strong evidence of a truth..

Hedge :: Hedge (v. i.) To reduce the risk of a wager by making a bet against the side or chance one has bet on.

Sort :: Sort (n.) A chance group; a company of persons who happen to be together; a troop; also, an assemblage of animals..

Die :: Die (n.) That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance..

Habnab :: Habnab (adv.) By chance.

Job :: Job (v. i.) To do chance work for hire; to work by the piece; to do petty work.

Roustabout :: Roustabout (n.) A laborer, especially a deck hand, on a river steamboat, who moves the cargo, loads and unloads wood, and the like; in an opprobrious sense, a shiftless vagrant who lives by chance jobs..

Case :: Case (n.) Chance; accident; hap; opportunity.

Woolsack :: Woolsack (n.) A sack or bag of wool; specifically, the seat of the lord chancellor of England in the House of Lords, being a large, square sack of wool resembling a divan in form..

Chance :: Chance (n.) A possibility; a likelihood; an opportunity; -- with reference to a doubtful result; as, a chance to escape; a chance for life; the chances are all against him..

Kill :: Kill (v. t.) To destroy; to ruin; as, to kill one's chances; to kill the sale of a book..

Hit :: Hit (v. i.) To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, -- often with implied chance, or luck..

Perchance :: Perchance (adv.) By chance; perhaps; peradventure.

Fortuitous :: Fortuitous (a.) Happening by chance; coming or occuring unexpectedly, or without any known cause; chance; as, the fortuitous concourse of atoms..

Faldistory :: Faldistory (n.) The throne or seat of a bishop within the chancel.

Skunk :: Skunk (v. t.) In games of chance and skill: To defeat (an opponent) (as in cards) so that he fails to gain a point, or (in checkers) to get a king..

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