Hazard (hăz&etilde_;rd), n. [F. hasard, Sp. azar an unforeseen disaster or accident, an unfortunate card or throw at dice, prob. fr. Ar. zahr, zār, a die, which, with the article al the, would give azzahr, azzār.] 1. A game of chance played with dice. Chaucer.
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2. The uncertain result of throwing a die; hence, a fortuitous event; chance; accident; casualty.
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I will stand the hazard of the die. Shak.
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3. Risk; danger; peril; as, he encountered the enemy at the hazard of his reputation and life.
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Men are led on from one stage of life to another in a condition of the utmost hazard. Rogers.
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4. (Billiards) Holing a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard).
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5. Anything that is hazarded or risked, as the stakes in gaming. “Your latter hazard.” Shak.
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6. (Golf) Any place into which the ball may not be safely played, such as bunkers, furze, water, sand, or other kind of bad ground.
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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. -- to hazard, at risk; liable to suffer damage or loss.

Syn. -- Danger; risk; chance. See Danger.
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Hazard (hăz&etilde_;rd), v. i. To try the chance; to encounter risk or danger. Shak.
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