资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Hazard \Haz"ard\, n. [F. hazard, Sp. azar an unforeseen disaster
or accident, an unfortunate card or throw at dice, prob. fr.
Ar. zahr, z[=a]r, a die, which, with the article al the,
would give azzahr, azz[=a]r.]
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 a table on which hazard is played, or any
game of chance for stakes.
{To ru? the hazard}, to take the chance or risk.
Syn: Danger; risk; chance. See {Danger}.