2. The uncertain result of throwing a die; hence, a fortuitous event; chance; accident; casualty. [ 1913 Webster ]

I will stand the hazard of the die. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Risk; danger; peril; as, he encountered the enemy at the hazard of his reputation and life. [ 1913 Webster ]

Men are led on from one stage of life to another in a condition of the utmost hazard. Rogers. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Billiards) Holing a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard). [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Anything that is hazarded or risked, as the stakes in gaming. “Your latter hazard.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To expose to the operation of chance; to put in danger of loss or injury; to venture; to risk. [ 1913 Webster ]

Men hazard nothing by a course of evangelical obedience. John Clarke. [ 1913 Webster ]

He hazards his neck to the halter. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To venture to incur, or bring on. [ 1913 Webster ]

I hazarded the loss of whom I loved. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

They hazard to cut their feet. Landor.

Syn. -- To venture; risk; jeopard; peril; endanger. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Such as can be hazarded or risked. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who hazards or ventures. [ 1913 Webster ]

Herself had run into that hazardize. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Rashness; temerity. [ R. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]