DANGER

n. v.

6 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

Authority; jurisdiction; control. [Obs.] In dangerhad he . . . the young girls. Chaucer.

2.
n.

Power to harm; subjection or liability to penalty. [Obs.] See In one's danger, below. You stand within his danger, do you not Shak. Covetousness of gains hath brought [them] in dangerof this statute. Robynson (More's Utopia).

3.
n.

Exposure to injury, loss, pain, or other evil; peril; risk; insecurity.

4.
n.

Difficulty; sparingness. [Obs.] Chaucer.

5.
n.

Coyness; disdainful behavior. [Obs.] Chaucer. In one's danger, in one's power; liable to a penalty to be inflicted by him. [Obs.] This sense is retained in the proverb, "Out of debt out of danger." Those rich man in whose debt and danger they be not. Robynson (More's Utopia). -- To do danger, to cause danger. [Obs.] Shak.

6.
v.

To endanger. [Obs.] Shak.

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