Definition of danger

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Danger (n.) Power to harm; subjection or liability to penalty.

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Beset :: Beset (v. t.) To set upon on all sides; to perplex; to harass; -- said of dangers, obstacles, etc..
Shelfy :: Shelfy (a.) Abounding in shelves; full of dangerous shallows.
Defence :: Defence (n.) The act of defending, or the state of being defended; protection, as from violence or danger..
Cowardice :: Cowardice (n.) Want of courage to face danger; extreme timidity; pusillanimity; base fear of danger or hurt; lack of spirit.
Parlous :: Parlous (a.) Attended with peril; dangerous; as, a parlous cough..
Perilous :: Perilous (a.) Daring; reckless; dangerous.
Rescue :: Rescue (v.) The act of rescuing; deliverance from restraint, violence, or danger; liberation..
Quinsy :: Quinsy (n.) An inflammation of the throat, or parts adjacent, especially of the fauces or tonsils, attended by considerable swelling, painful and impeded deglutition, and accompanied by inflammatory fever. It sometimes creates danger of suffocation; -- called also squinancy, and squinzey..
Dangerless :: Dangerless (a.) Free from danger.
Insure :: Insure (v. t.) Specifically, to secure against a loss by a contingent event, on certain stipulated conditions, or at a given rate or premium; to give or to take an insurance on or for; as, a merchant insures his ship or its cargo, or both, against the dangers of the sea; goods and buildings are insured against fire or water; persons are insured against sickness, accident, or death; and sometimes hazardous debts are insured..
Breakneck :: Breakneck (a.) Producing danger of a broken neck; as, breakneck speed..
Decoy-duck :: Decoy-duck (n.) A duck used to lure wild ducks into a decoy; hence, a person employed to lure others into danger..
Bold :: Bold (n.) Exhibiting or requiring spirit and contempt of danger; planned with courage; daring; vigorous.
Ergot :: Ergot (n.) The mycelium or spawn of this fungus infecting grains of rye and wheat. It is a powerful remedial agent, and also a dangerous poison, and is used as a means of hastening childbirth, and to arrest bleeding..
Cholera :: Cholera (n.) One of several diseases affecting the digestive and intestinal tract and more or less dangerous to life, esp. the one commonly called Asiatic cholera..
Throttle :: Throttle (v. i.) To have the throat obstructed so as to be in danger of suffocation; to choke; to suffocate.
Discriminous :: Discriminous (a.) Hazardous; dangerous.
Caltrap :: Caltrap (n.) An instrument with four iron points, so disposed that, any three of them being on the ground, the other projects upward. They are scattered on the ground where an enemy's cavalry are to pass, to impede their progress by endangering the horses' feet..
Danger :: Danger (n.) Power to harm; subjection or liability to penalty.
Alarmed :: Alarmed (a.) Aroused to vigilance; excited by fear of approaching danger; agitated; disturbed; as, an alarmed neighborhood; an alarmed modesty..
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