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.