Definition of hazard

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Hazard (n.) Risk; danger; peril; as, he encountered the enemy at the hazard of his reputation and life..

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Plunge :: Plunge (v. i.) To bet heavily and with seeming recklessness on a race, or other contest; in an extended sense, to risk large sums in hazardous speculations..
Hazard :: Hazard (n.) A game of chance played with dice.
Risky :: Risky (a.) Attended with risk or danger; hazardous.
Scratch :: Scratch (a.) Made, done, or happening by chance; arranged with little or no preparation; determined by circumstances; haphazard; as, a scratch team; a scratch crew for a boat race; a scratch shot in billiards..
Venture :: Venture (n.) The thing put to hazard; a stake; a risk; especially, something sent to sea in trade..
Venturer :: Venturer (n.) One who ventures, or puts to hazard; an adventurer..
Jeopardous :: Jeopardous (a.) Perilous; hazardous.
Mum-chance :: Mum-chance (n.) A game of hazard played with cards in silence.
Endangerment :: Endangerment (n.) Hazard; peril.
Hazard :: Hazard (n.) To expose to the operation of chance; to put in danger of loss or injury; to venture; to risk.
Hazard :: Hazard (n.) To venture to incur, or bring on..
Lot :: Lot (n.) That which happens without human design or forethought; chance; accident; hazard; fortune; fate.
Wager :: Wager (v. t.) To hazard on the issue of a contest, or on some question that is to be decided, or on some casualty; to lay; to stake; to bet..
Hazarding :: Hazarding (p. pr. & vb. /) of Hazar.
Will :: Will (adv.) As an auxiliary, will is used to denote futurity dependent on the verb. Thus, in first person, I will denotes willingness, consent, promise; and when will is emphasized, it denotes determination or fixed purpose; as, I will go if you wish; I will go at all hazards. In the second and third persons, the idea of distinct volition, wish, or purpose is evanescent, and simple certainty is appropriately expressed; as, You will go, or He will go, describes a future event as a fact only. To e
Bibliomancy :: Bibliomancy (n.) A kind of divination, performed by selecting passages of Scripture at hazard, and drawing from them indications concerning future events..
Stichometrical :: Stichomancy (n.) Divination by lines, or passages of books, taken at hazard..
Hazarder :: Hazarder (n.) One who hazards or ventures.
Speculate :: Speculate (v. i.) To purchase with the expectation of a contingent advance in value, and a consequent sale at a profit; -- often, in a somewhat depreciative sense, of unsound or hazardous transactions; as, to speculate in coffee, in sugar, or in bank stock..
Hazard :: Hazard (n.) Holing a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard)..
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