Dan"ger*ous (?), a. [OE., haughty,
difficult, dangerous, fr. OF. dangereus, F. dangereux.
See Danger.] 1. 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.
2. Causing danger; ready to do harm or
injury.
If they incline to think you dangerous
To less than gods.
Milton.
3. In a condition of danger, as from illness;
threatened with death. [Colloq.] Forby. Bartlett.
4. Hard to suit; difficult to please.
[Obs.]
My wages ben full strait, and eke full small;
My lord to me is hard and dangerous.
Chaucer.
5. Reserved; not affable. [Obs.] "Of
his speech dangerous." Chaucer.
-- Dan"ger*ous*ly, adv. --
Dan"ger*ous*ness, n.
