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(Geol.) An epoch at the close of the Canadian period of the American Lower Silurian system; -- so named from a township in Clinton Co., New York. See the Diagram under Geology. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Hung., lit., House of Lords. ] (Hungary) See Legislature. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

{ ‖‖, n. [ Ar. ghazal. ] A kind of Oriental lyric, and usually erotic, poetry, written in recurring rhymes. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n. [ Ar. ghāzī. ] Among Muslims, a warrior champion or veteran, esp. in the destruction of infidels. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Hap + hazard. ] Extra hazard; chance; accident; random. [ 1913 Webster ]

We take our principles at haphazard, upon trust. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Determined by chance, whimsy, or guesswork; unplanned; aimless; random; -- used mostly of human actions. [ PJC ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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 ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Hazarded; p. pr. & vb. n. Hazarding. ] [ Cf. F. hasarder. See Hazard, n. ] [ 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 ]

v. i. To try the chance; to encounter risk or danger. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Liable to hazard or chance; uncertain; risky. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

n. 1. A player at the game of hazard; a gamester. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

n. A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

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

a. [ Cf. F. hasardeux. ] Exposed to hazard; dangerous; risky. [ 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 ]

n. the state of being dangerous.
Syn. -- perilousness, precariousness, danger. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. Playing at hazard; gaming; gambling. [ R. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

n. [ Cf. Icel. höss gray; akin to AS. hasu, heasu, gray; or Armor. aézen, ézen, warm vapor, exhalation, zephyr. ] 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

O'er the sky
The silvery haze of summer drawn. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Above the world's uncertain haze. Keble. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A state of confusion, uncertainty, or vagueness of thought or perception; as, after the explosion, people were wandering around in a haze. [ PJC ]

v. i. To be hazy, or thick with haze. Ray. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Hazed p. pr. & vb. n. Hazing. ] [ Also hase. ] [ Cf. Sw. haza to hamstring, fr. has hough, OD. hæssen ham. ] 1. To harass by exacting unnecessary, disagreeable, or difficult work. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To harass or annoy by playing abusive or shameful tricks upon; to humiliate by practical jokes; -- used esp. of college students, as an initiation rite into a fraternity or other group; as, the sophomores hazed a freshman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. hasel, AS. hæsel; akin to D. hazelaar, G. hazel, OHG. hasal, hasala, Icel. hasl, Dan & Sw. hassel, L. corylus, for cosylus. ] 1. (Bot.) A shrub or small tree of the genus Corylus, as the Corylus avellana, bearing a nut containing a kernel of a mild, farinaceous taste; the filbert. The American species are Corylus Americana, which produces the common hazelnut, and Corylus rostrata. See Filbert. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A miner's name for freestone. Raymond. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hazel earth, soil suitable for the hazel; a fertile loam. --
Hazel grouse (Zool.), a European grouse (Bonasa betulina), allied to the American ruffed grouse. --
Hazel hoe, a kind of grub hoe. --
Witch hazel. See Witch-hazel, and Hamamelis. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Consisting of hazels, or of the wood of the hazel; pertaining to, or derived from, the hazel; as, a hazel wand. [ 1913 Webster ]

I sit me down beside the hazel grove. Keble. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of a light brown color, like the hazelnut. “Thou hast hazel eyes.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Destitute of haze. Tyndall. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of the color of the hazelnut; of a light brown. Mortimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. hæselhnutu. ] The nut of the hazel. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A reddish-brown wood and lumber from the heartwood of the sweet gum tree.
Syn. -- sweet gum, satin walnut, red gum. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Bot.) The asarabacca. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a hazy manner; mistily; obscurely; confusedly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being hazy. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To make dry; to dry. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ From Haze, n. ] 1. Thick with haze; somewhat obscured with haze; not clear or transparent. “A tender, hazy brightness.” Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Obscure; confused; not clear; as, a hazy argument; a hazy intellect. Mrs. Gore. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Hung., fr. képviselö representative + ház house. ] (Hungary) See Legislature. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Naphthalene + alizarin. ] (Chem.) A dyestuff, resembling alizarin, obtained from naphthoquinone as a red crystalline substance with a bright green, metallic luster; -- called also naphthalizarin. [ 1913 Webster ]

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n. [ See Wych-elm, and Hazel. ] (Bot.) The wych-elm. (b) An American shrub or small tree (Hamamelis Virginica), which blossoms late in autumn. [ 1913 Webster ]