to hazard

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to hazard - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Hazard \Haz"ard\ (h[a^]z"[~e]rd), n. [F. hasard, Sp. azar an
     unforeseen disaster or accident, an unfortunate card or throw
     at dice, prob. fr. Ar. zahr, z[=a]r, a die, which, with the
     article al the, would give azzahr, azz[=a]r.]
     1. A game of chance played with dice. --Chaucer.
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     2. The uncertain result of throwing a die; hence, a
        fortuitous event; chance; accident; casualty.
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              I will stand the hazard of the die.   --Shak.
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     3. Risk; danger; peril; as, he encountered the enemy at the
        hazard of his reputation and life.
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              Men are led on from one stage of life to another in
              a condition of the utmost hazard.     --Rogers.
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     4. (Billiards) Holing a ball, whether the object ball
        (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard).
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     5. Anything that is hazarded or risked, as the stakes in
        gaming. "Your latter hazard." --Shak.
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     6. (Golf) Any place into which the ball may not be safely
        played, such as bunkers, furze, water, sand, or other kind
        of bad ground.
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     Hazard table, a table on which hazard is played, or any
        game of chance for stakes.
  
     To run the hazard, to take the chance or risk.
  
     to hazard, at risk; liable to suffer damage or loss.
  
     Syn: Danger; risk; chance. See Danger.
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