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Accident :: Accident (n.) Literally, a befalling; an event that takes place without one's foresight or expectation; an undesigned, sudden, and unexpected event; chance; contingency; often, an undesigned and unforeseen occurrence of an afflictive or unfortunate character; a casualty; a mishap; as, to die by an accident..

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..

Misadventure :: Misadventure (n.) Mischance; misfortune; ill lick; unlucky accident; ill adventure.

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..

Interdict :: Interdict (n.) An order of the court of session, having the like purpose and effect with a writ of injunction out of chancery in England and America..

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

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

Happen :: Happen (v. i.) To come by chance; to come without previous expectation; to fall out.

Peradventure :: Peradventure (n.) Chance; hap; hence, doubt; question; as, proved beyond peradventure..

Chance-medley :: Chance-medley (n.) Luck; chance; accident.

Boom :: Boom (n.) A strong and extensive advance, with more or less noisy excitement; -- applied colloquially or humorously to market prices, the demand for stocks or commodities and to political chances of aspirants to office; as, a boom in the stock market; a boom in coffee..

Aventure :: Aventure (n.) A mischance causing a person's death without felony, as by drowning, or falling into the fire..

Venture :: Venture (n.) An undertaking of chance or danger; the risking of something upon an event which can not be foreseen with certainty; a hazard; a risk; a speculation.

Chevet :: Chevet (n.) The extreme end of the chancel or choir; properly the round or polygonal part.

Sort :: Sort (n.) Chance; lot; destiny.

Chaud-medley :: Chaud-medley (n.) The killing of a person in an affray, in the heat of blood, and while under the influence of passion, thus distinguished from chance-medley or killing in self-defense, or in a casual affray..

Procedendo :: Procedendo (n.) In English practice, a writ issuing out of chancery in cases where the judges of subordinate courts delay giving judgment, commanding them to proceed to judgment..

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

Lazzaroni :: Lazzaroni (n. pl.) The homeless idlers of Naples who live by chance work or begging; -- so called from the Hospital of St. Lazarus, which serves as their refuge..

Prize :: Prize (n.) That which may be won by chance, as in a lottery..

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