"hazard" Definition

Definitions for the word "hazard" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. n.
A game of chance played with dice.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
The uncertain result of throwing a die; hence, a fortuitous event; chance; accident; casualty.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
Risk; danger; peril; as, he encountered the enemy at the hazard of his reputation and life.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
Holing a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard).
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
Anything that is hazarded or risked, as the stakes in gaming.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. n.
To expose to the operation of chance; to put in danger of loss or injury; to venture; to risk.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. n.
To venture to incur, or bring on.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. v. i.
To try the chance; to encounter risk or danger.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. n.
1 danger or risk. 2 source of this. 3 golf obstacle, e.g. A bunker. v. 1 venture (hazard a guess). 2 risk. [arabic az-zahr chance, luck]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884

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