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To put in jeopardy; to expose to loss or injury; to imperil; to hazard. Sir T. North. A people that jeoparded their lives unto the death. Judg. v. 18.

One who puts in jeopardy. [R.]

To expose to loss or injury; to risk; to jeopard. That he should jeopardize his willful head Only for spite at me. H. Taylor.

Perilous; hazardous. His goodly, valiant, and jeopardous enterprise. Fuller. -- Jeop"ard*ous*ly, adv. Huloet.

re came down a storm of wind on the lake; and they were filled with water, and were in jeopardy. Luke viii. 23. Look to thyself, thou art in jeopardy. Shak.

A spark produced by the jumping of electricity across a permanent gap.

Jeopardy. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A rupture or hernia in the lumbar regions.

A cutting through the walls of the abdomen, as in the Cæsarean section.

Depositing living larvæ, instead of eggs; -- said of certain insects.

A large, savage, carnivorous mammal (Felis leopardus). It is of a yellow or fawn color, with rings or roselike clusters of black spots along the back and sides. It is found in Southern Asia and Africa. By some the panther (Felis pardus) is regarded as a variety of leopard. Hunting leopard. See Cheetah. Leopard cat (Zoö…

A name of several harmless plants, as Arnica montana, Senecio Doronicum, and Paris quadrifolia.

See Letterwood.

Any species of a family (Liparidæ) of destructive bombycid moths, as the tussock moths.

A quartzose trachyte; rhyolite.

A tree, the top of which has been lopped off. [Eng.]

transferred to the blood of man, by the bite of the mosquito, produce malaria. The young parasites, or sporozoites, enter the red blood corpuscles, growing at their expense, undergoing sporulation, and finally destroying the corpuscles, thus liberating in the blood plasma an immense number of small spores called meroz…

A fold of the peritoneum connecting the liver with the dorsal wall of the abdominal cavity.

A parasitic microörganism. -- Mi`cro*par`a*sit"ic (#), a.

To distribute wrongly. [Obs.] He misdeparteth riches temporal. Chaucer.