Part 5163

<hw>Hay"stack`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A stack or conical pile of hay in the open air.</def>

<h1>Haystalk</h1> <Xpage=676>

<hw>Hay"stalk`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A stalk of hay.</def>

<h1>Haythorn</h1> <Xpage=676>

<hw>Hay"thorn`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Hawthorn.</def>

<i>R. Scot.</i>

<h1>Haytian</h1> <Xpage=676>

<hw>Hay"ti*an</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Of pertaining to Hayti.</def> -- <def2><tt>n.</tt> <def>A native of Hayti.</def></def2> <altsp>[Written also <asp>Haitian</asp>.]</altsp>

<h1>Hayward</h1> <Xpage=676>

<hw>Hay"ward</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Hay</ets> a hedge + <ets>ward</ets>.]</ety> <def>An officer who is appointed to guard hedges, and to keep cattle from breaking or cropping them, and whose further duty it is to impound animals found running at large.</def>

<h1>Hazard</h1> <Xpage=676>

<hw>Haz"ard</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>hazard</ets>, Sp. <ets>azar</ets> an unforeseen disaster or accident, an unfortunate card or throw at dice, prob. fr. Ar. <ets>zahr</ets>, <ets>z\'ber</ets>, a die, which, with the article <ets>al</ets> the, would give <ets>azzahr</ets>, <ets>azz\'ber</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A game of chance played with dice.</def>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The uncertain result of throwing a die; hence, a fortuitous event; chance; accident; casualty.</def>

<blockquote>I will stand the <b>hazard</b> of the die. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Risk; danger; peril; <as>as, he encountered the enemy at the <ex>hazard</ex> of his reputation and life</as>.</def>

<blockquote>Men are led on from one stage of life to another in a condition of the utmost <b>hazard</b>. <i>Rogers</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <fld>(Billiards<?/)</fld> <def>Holing a ball, whether the object ball (winning <i>hazard</i>) or the player's ball (losing <i>hazard</i>).</def>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>Anything that is hazarded or risked, as the stakes in gaming.</def> "Your latter <i>hazard</i>."

<i>Shak.</i>

<cs><col>Hazard table</col>, <cd>a a table on which hazard is played, or any game of chance for stakes.</cd> -- <col>To ru<?/ the hazard</col>, <cd>to take the chance or risk.</cd></cs>

<syn>Syn. -- Danger; risk; chance. See <er>Danger</er>.</syn>

<h1>Hazard</h1> <Xpage=676>

<hw>Haz"ard</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Hazarded</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. <?/</tt> <er>Hazarding</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>hazarder</ets>. See Hazard, <tt>n.</tt>]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To expose to the operation of chance; to put in danger of loss or injury; to venture; to risk.</def>

<blockquote>Men <b>hazard</b> nothing by a course of evangelical obedience. <i>John Clarke.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>He <b>hazards</b> his neck to the halter. <i>Fuller.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To venture to incur, or bring on.</def>