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Venture :: Venture (v. t.) To put or send on a venture or chance; as, to venture a horse to the West Indies..

Ancient :: Ancient (n.) One of the senior members of the Inns of Court or of Chancery.

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

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

Roulette :: Roulette (n.) A game of chance, in which a small ball is made to move round rapidly on a circle divided off into numbered red and black spaces, the one on which it stops indicating the result of a variety of wagers permitted by the game..

Speculation :: Speculation (n.) Any business venture in involving unusual risks, with a chance for large profits..

Lot :: Lot (n.) Anything (as a die, pebble, ball, or slip of paper) used in determining a question by chance, or without man's choice or will; as, to cast or draw lots..

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

Chance :: Chance (n.) A supposed material or psychical agent or mode of activity other than a force, law, or purpose; fortune; fate; -- in this sense often personified..

Balk :: Balk (v. t.) To omit, miss, or overlook by chance..

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

Spigurnel :: Spigurnel (n.) Formerly the title of the sealer of writs in chancery.

Chance-medley :: Chance-medley (n.) The killing of another in self-defense upon a sudden and unpremeditated encounter. See Chaud-Medley.

Thedom :: Thedom (n.) Success; fortune; luck; chance.

Adventure :: Adventure (v. i.) To try the chance; to take the risk.

Cast :: Cast (n.) A throw of dice; hence, a chance or venture..

Waif :: Waif (n.) Hence, anything found, or without an owner; that which comes along, as it were, by chance..

Lottery :: Lottery (n.) A scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance; esp., a gaming scheme in which one or more tickets bearing particular numbers draw prizes, and the rest of tickets are blanks. Fig. : An affair of chance..

Chance :: Chance (v. t.) To befall; to happen to.

Chance :: Chance (adv.) By chance; perchance.

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