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