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 ] | 
