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To expose to the operation of chance; to put in danger of loss or injury; to venture; to risk. Men hazard nothing by a course of evangelical obedience. John Clarke. He hazards his neck to the halter. Fuller.

Exposed to hazard; dangerous; risky. To enterprise so hazardous and high! Milton.

heating medicines or applications. Heating surface (Steam Boilers), the aggregate surface exposed to fire or to the heated products of combustion, esp. of all the plates or sheets that are exposed to water on their opposite surfaces; -- called also fire surface.

A soft covering for the head, worn by women, which leaves only the face exposed.

he great divisions of fungi, containing those species in which the hymenium is completely exposed. M. J. Berkley.

Exposed to the air; wanting a roof; -- applied to a building or part of a building. Gwilt.

One who exposes or destroys impositions or shams; one who attacks cherished beliefs; a radical.

with, as something inconvenient, harmful, or onerous; to put one's self in the way of; to expose one's self to; to become liable or subject to; to bring down upon one's self; to encounter; to contract; as, to incur debt, danger, displeasure I know not what I shall incur to passShak.

A state of not being exposed.

port; having a reputation of the worst kind; held in abhorrence; guilty of something that exposes to infamy; base; notoriously vile; detestable; as, an infamous traitor; an infamous perjurer. False errant knight, infamous, and forsworn. Spenser.

A quality which exposes to disgrace; extreme baseness or vileness; as, the infamy of an action.

To dry by exposing to smoke; to expose to smoke.

The act of burying vessels in warm earth in order to expose their contents to a steady moderate heat; the state of being thus exposed.

; a sudden or desultory incursion or invasion; raid; encroachment. The loss of Shrewsbury exposed all North Wales to the daily inroads of the enemy. Clarendon. With perpetual inroads to alarm, Though inaccessible, his fatal throne. Milton.

Not effectually guarded, protected, or sustained; unsafe; unstable; exposed to danger or loss. Bp. Hurg. The trade with Egypt was exceedingly insecure and precarious. Mickle.

To dry in, or to expose to, the sun's rays; to ripen or prepare by such exposure. Johnson.

g remark or reflection; a scoff; a taunt; a biting jest; a flout; a jibe; mockery. Midas, exposed to all their jeers, Had lost his art, and kept his ears. Swift.

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.

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

To expose to danger; to risk; to hazard. [Obs.] To jump a body with a dangerous physic. Shak.