2. To venture to incur, or bring on.
I hazarded the loss of whom I loved.
Shak.
They hazard to cut their feet.
Landor. Syn. — To venture; risk; jeopard; peril; endanger.
Hazard
(Haz"ard) v. i. To try the chance; to encounter risk or danger. Shak.
Hazardable
(Haz"ard*a*ble) a.
1. Liable to hazard or chance; uncertain; risky. Sir T. Browne.
2. Such as can be hazarded or risked.
Hazarder
(Haz"ard*er) n.
1. A player at the game of hazard; a gamester. [Obs.] Chaucer.
2. One who hazards or ventures.
Hazardize
(Haz"ard*ize) n. A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. [Obs.]
Herself had run into that hazardize.
Spenser. Hazardous
(Haz"ard*ous) a. [Cf. F. hasardeux.] Exposed to hazard; dangerous; risky.
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.
Hazardry
(Haz"ard*ry) n.
1. Playing at hazard; gaming; gambling. [R.] Chaucer.
2. Rashness; temerity. [R.] Spenser.
Haze
(Haze) n. [Cf. Icel. höss gray; akin to AS. hasu, heasu, gray; or Armor. aézen, ézen, warm vapor,
exhalation, zephyr.] 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.
O'er the sky
The silvery haze of summer drawn.
Tennyson.
Above the world's uncertain haze.
Keble. Haze
(Haze), v. i. To be hazy, or thick with haze. Ray.
Haze
(Haze), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hazed (hazd); 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.
2. To harass or annoy by playing abusive or shameful tricks upon; to humiliate by practical jokes; — used
esp. of college students; as, the sophomores hazed a freshman.
