Part 746

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.

Haz"ard (hz"rd), v. i. To try the chance; to encounter risk or danger. Shak.

Haz"ard*a*ble (-*b'l), a. 1. Liable to hazard or chance; uncertain; risky. Sir T. Browne.

2. Such as can be hazarded or risked.

Haz"ard*er (-r), n. 1. A player at the game of hazard; a gamester. [Obs.] Chaucer.

2. One who hazards or ventures.

Haz"ard*ize (-z), n. A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. [Obs.]

Herself had run into that hazardize.

Spenser.

Haz"ard*ous (-s), a. [Cf. F. hasardeux.] Exposed to hazard; dangerous; risky.

To enterprise so hazardous and high!

Milton.

Syn. -- Perilous; dangerous; bold; daring; adventurous; venturesome; precarious; uncertain.

-- Haz"ard*ous*ly, adv. -- Haz"ard*ous*ness, n.

Haz"ard*ry (-r), n. 1. Playing at hazard; gaming; gambling. [R.] Chaucer.

2. Rashness; temerity. [R.] Spenser.

Haze (hz), n. [Cf. Icel. hˆss gray; akin to AS. hasu, heasu, gray; or Armor. aÈzen, Èzen, warm vapor, exhalation, zephyr.] Light vapor or smoke in the air which more or less impedes vision, with little or no dampness; a lack of transparency in the air; hence, figuratively, obscurity; dimness.

O'er the sky The silvery haze of summer drawn.