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Cast :: Cast (n.) A chance, opportunity, privilege, or advantage; specifically, an opportunity of riding; a lift..

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..

Possibly :: Possibly (adv.) In a possible manner; by possible means; especially, by extreme, remote, or improbable intervention, change, or exercise of power; by a chance; perhaps; as, possibly he may recover..

Speculation :: Speculation (n.) A game at cards in which the players buy from one another trumps or whole hands, upon a chance of getting the highest trump dealt, which entitles the holder to the pool of stakes..

Hazard :: Hazard (v. i.) To try the chance; to encounter risk or danger.

Mischance :: Mischance (n.) Ill luck; ill fortune; mishap.

Folio :: Folio (n.) A leaf containing a certain number of words, hence, a certain number of words in a writing, as in England, in law proceedings 72, and in chancery, 90; in New York, 100 words..

Alight :: Alight (v. i.) To come or chance (upon).

Brief :: Brief (n.) A writ issuing from the chancery, directed to any judge ordinary, commanding and authorizing that judge to call a jury to inquire into the case, and upon their verdict to pronounce sentence..

Chance :: Chance (v. i.) To happen, come, or arrive, without design or expectation..

Fortune :: Fortune (n.) That which comes as the result of an undertaking or of a course of action; good or ill success; especially, favorable issue; happy event; success; prosperity as reached partly by chance and partly by effort..

Random :: Random (a.) Going at random or by chance; done or made at hazard, or without settled direction, aim, or purpose; hazarded without previous calculation; left to chance; haphazard; as, a random guess..

Perhaps :: Perhaps (adv.) By chance; peradventure; perchance; it may be.

Light :: Light (v. i.) To come by chance; to happen; -- with on or upon; formerly with into.

Chanceful :: Chanceful (a.) Hazardous.

Lord :: Lord (n.) A title bestowed on the persons above named; and also, for honor, on certain official persons; as, lord advocate, lord chamberlain, lord chancellor, lord chief justice, etc..

Consistory :: Consistory (n.) The spiritual court of a diocesan bishop held before his chancellor or commissioner in his cathedral church or elsewhere.

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

Misfortune :: Misfortune (n.) Bad fortune or luck; calamity; an evil accident; disaster; mishap; mischance.

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..

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