Syn. — Danger; hazard; peril; jeopardy; exposure. See Danger.
Risk
(Risk), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Risked ; p. pr. & vb. n. Risking.] [CF. F. risquer. See Risk, n.]
1. To expose to risk, hazard, or peril; to venture; as, to risk goods on board of a ship; to risk one's person
in battle; to risk one's fame by a publication.
2. To incur the risk or danger of; as, to risk a battle.
Syn. — To hazard; peril; endanger; jeopard.
Risker
(Risk"er) n. One who risks or hazards. Hudibras.
Riskful
(Risk"ful) a. Risky. [R.] Geddes.
Risky
(Risk"y) a. Attended with risk or danger; hazardous. "A risky matter." W. Collins.
Generalization are always risky.
Lowell. Risorial
(Ri*so"ri*al) a.[L. ridere, risum, to laugh.] Pertaining to, or producing, laughter; as, the risorial
muscles.
Risotto
(||Ri*sot"to) n. [It.] A kind of pottage.
Risse
(Risse) obs. imp. of Rise. B. Jonson.
Rissoid
(Ris"soid) n. [NL. Rissoa, the typical genus ( fr. A. Risso, an Italian naturalist) + - oid.] (Zoöl.)
Any one of very numerous species of small spiral gastropods of the genus Rissoa, or family Rissoidæ,
found both in fresh and salt water.
Rissole
(||Ris`sole") n. [F., fr. rissoler to fry meat till it is brown.] (Cookery) A small ball of rich minced
meat or fish, covered with pastry and fried.
Rist
(Rist) obs. 3d pers. sing. pres. of Rise, contracted from riseth. Chaucer.
Rit
(Rit) obs. 3d pers. sing. pres. of Ride, contracted from rideth. Chaucer.
Ritardando
(||Ri`tar*dan"do) a. [It.] (Mus.) Retarding; — a direction for slower time; rallentado.
Rite
(Rite) n. [L. ritus; cf. Skr. riti a stream, a running, way, manner, ri to flow: cf. F. rit, rite. CF. Rivulet.]
The act of performing divine or solemn service, as established by law, precept, or custom; a formal act of
religion or other solemn duty; a solemn observance; a ceremony; as, the rites of freemasonry.
He looked with indifference on rites, names, and forms of ecclesiastical polity.
Macaulay.
