Haz"ard (haz"ərd), n. [F. hasard, Sp. azar an unforeseen disaster or accident, an unfortunate card or throw at dice, prob. fr. Ar. zahr, zAr, a die, which, with the article al the, would give azzahr, azzAr.]
1. A game of chance played with dice. Chaucer. 2. The uncertain result of throwing a die; hence, a fortuitous event; chance; accident; casualty. I will stand the hazard of the die.
Shak. 3. Risk; danger; peril; as, he encountered the enemy at the hazard of his reputation and life. Men are led on from one stage of life to another in a condition of the utmost hazard.
Rogers. 4. (Billiards) Holing a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard). 5. Anything that is hazarded or risked, as the stakes in gaming. "Your latter hazard." Shak. 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. Syn. -- Danger; risk; chance. See Danger. © Webster 1913
Haz"ard, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hazarded; p. pr. & vb. n. Hazarding.] [Cf. F. hasarder. See Hazard, n.]
1. 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. 2. To venture to incur, or bring on. I hazarded the loss of whom I loved.
Shak. They hazard to cut their feet.
Landor. Syn. -- To venture; risk; jeopard; peril; endanger. © Webster 1913
Haz"ard (haz"ərd), v. i. To try the chance; to encounter risk or danger. Shak. © Webster 1913
Haz"ard, n. (Golf) Any place into which the ball may not be safely played, such as bunkers, furze, water, sand, or other kind of bad ground. © Webster 1913
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