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f throwing a die; hence, a fortuitous event; chance; accident; casualty. I will stand the hazard of the die. Shak.

Liable to hazard or chance; uncertain; risky. Sir T. Browne.

A player at the game of hazard; a gamester. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. [Obs.] Herself had run into that hazardize. Spenser.

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

Playing at hazard; gaming; gambling. [R.] Chaucer.

Extra hazard; chance; accident; random. We take our principles at haphazard, upon trust. Locke.

That which happens without design; chance; hazard; hap; hence, chance of danger or loss. Nay, a far less good to man it will be found, if she must, at all adventures, be fastened upon him individually. Milton.

One who adventures; as, the merchant adventurers; one who seeks his fortune in new and hazardous or perilous enterprises.

Inclined to adventure; willing to incur hazard; prone to embark in hazardous enterprise; rashly daring; -- applied to persons. Bold deed thou hast presumed, adventurous Eve. Milton.

A kind of divination, performed by selecting passages of Scripture at hazard, and drawing from them indications concerning future events.

d march this way or that way. Sowth. I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die. Shak.

Hazardous. [Obs.] Spenser.

To put to hazard, by some indiscretion; to endanger; to compromise; as, to compromit the honor or the safety of a nation.

ty; sly; artful; designid; deceitful. They are resolved to be cunning; let others run the hazard of being sincere. South.

Attended or beset with danger; full of risk; perilous; hazardous; unsafe. Our troops set forth to-morrow; stay with us; The ways are dangerous. Shak. It is dangerous to assert a negative. Macaulay.

o owes a debt; one who is indebted; -- correlative to creditor. [I 'll] bring your latter hazard back again, And thankfully rest debtor for the first. Shak. In Athens an insolvent debtor became slave to his creditor. Mitford. Debtors for our lives to you. Tennyson.

That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance. Such is the die of war. Spenser.

Hazardous; dangerous. [Obs.] Harvey.

ne to (a reward, whether the reward is received or not). The high repute Which he through hazard huge must earn. Milton.