hazard 
I do not doubt . . . 
To ... bring your latter hazard back again. 
Shalt., SI. of V., i. 1. 
7. In tennis and some similar games, that side 
of the court into which the ball is served. See 
tennis. 
Another when at the racket court he had a ball struck 
Into his hazard, he would ever and anon cry out, Estes 
vous la avec vos ours? Howell, ForraineTravell(1642),8. 
When we have match'd our rackets to these balls, 
We will in France, by God's grace, play a set 
Shall strike his father's crown into the hazard. 
Shak., Hen. V., L 2. 
Chicken hazard, a game of chance with very small 
stakes. To run the hazard, to do something when the 
consequences are not foreseen and not within the powers 
of calculation; risk; take the chance. =Syn. Venture, 
etc. See risk, n. 
hazard (haz'ard), v. [= F. hasarder, venture ; 
from the noun.] I, trans. 1. To take the 
chance of ; venture to do, undertake, etc. 
A cunning thief . . . would hazard the winning both of 
first and last. Shot., Cymbeline, i. 5. 
Mr. Darcy would never have hazarded such a proposal, 
If he had not been well assured of his cousin's corrobora- 
tion. Jane Auaten, Pride and Prejudice, p. 177. 
2. To take the risk or danger of; run the risk 
of incurring or bringing to pass : as, to hazard 
the loss of reputation or of a battle. 
Nor is the benefit proposed to be obtained by it in any 
manner equal to the evil hazarded. Clarke, Works, 1. 1L 
I know that by telling it I hazard a mortal enmity. 
Theodore Parker, Historic Americans. 
3. To imperil; expose to danger or loss: as, to 
hazard life for a friend ; to hazard an estate 
recklessly. 
Who chooseth me must give and hazard all he hath. 
SAaJt.,11. of V., it 7. 
I hold it better far 
To keep the course we run, than, seeking change, 
Hazard our lives, our heirs, and the realms. 
Webster and Dekker, Sir Thomas Wyat, p. 18. 
4. To incur the danger involved in ; venture. 
I must hazard the production of the bald fact, . . . 
though it should prove an Egyptian skull at our banquet. 
Emerson, Friendship. 
6. To expose to the risk of; put in danger of: 
with to. [Rare.] 
He hazards his neck to the halter. Fuller. 
= Syn. To jeopard, peril, imperil, endanger. See danger, 
and rink, n. 
II. intrans. To try the chance; adventure; 
run the risk or danger. 
Yet you may scape to the camp ; we'll hazard with you. 
Fletcher, Valentinian, iv. 4. 
Pause a day or two 
Before you hazard. Shak., M. of V., iii. 2. 
hazardable (haz'ar-da-bl), a. [< hazard + 
-able.} 1. Liable to hazard or chance; ex- 
posed to danger. 
How to keep the corps seven dayes from corruption by 
anointing and washing, without exenteration, were an 
hazardable peece of art, in our choisest practise. 
Sir T. Browne, Urn-Burial, ill. 
For Cooper's Dictionary, I will send it you as soon as I 
can ; but it is so difficult and hazardable ... as I cannot 
tell how to convey that, or anything else to thee. 
Winthrop, Hist. New England, I. 410. 
2. Capable of being hazarded or risked. 
hazarder (haz'ar-der), n. [Early mod. E. also 
hasardour; < ME. hasardour, < OF. hasardour, 
hasardeor, < hasard, hazard : see hazard, .] A 
player at dice or cards ; a gamester. 
It is repreve and contrarie of honour 
For to ben holde a commune hasardour. 
Chaucer, Pardoner's Tale, 1. 134. 
Trist nout to ys wonder world that lastit bot a wile : 
For it is not bot [only] wiles of wo, a hasardour that wil 
the [thee] gile. 
Political Poems, etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 234. 
hazardizet, [< hazard + -ize, -ise, as in gor- 
mandise, n., cowardice, etc.] A hazardous situ- 
ation or enterprise ; danger. 
Her self e had ronne into that hazardize. 
Spenser, F. Q., n. xii. 18. 
hazardous (haz'ar-dus), a. [< OF. hasardeux 
= It. azzardoso, Hazardous; as hazard + -mis.] 
1 . Full of or exposing to hazard or peril, or dan- 
ger of loss or evil ; dangerous ; risky. 
I understand you have been in sundry hot and hazard- 
ous Encounters, because of those many Scars and Cuts you 
wear about you. Homell, Letters, iv. 40. 
Perhaps them [Christ] linger'st, in deep thought detain'd 
Of the enterprise so hazardous and high. 
Milton, P. E., iii. 228. 
E'en daylight has its dangers ; and the walk 
Through pathless wastes . . . 
Is hazardous and bold. Cowper, Task, iv. 575. 
2f. Reckless ; daring ; inclined to run risks. 
Lycurgus was in his nature hazardous, and, by the lucky 
passing through many dangers, grown confident in him- 
self. Sir P. Sidney, Arcadia, iii. 
2746 
Hazardous Insurance, an insurance effected at a high 
premium on buildings or goods more than ordinarily lia- 
ble to catch fire, as on wooden houses, theaters, oil- or 
varnish-works, petroleum, etc. When the risk is con- 
sidered to be very great, such insurances are called extra- 
hazardous. = Syn. Perilous, unsafe, precarious, uncertain, 
bold, daring. 
hazardously (haz'iir-dus-li), adv. In a hazard- 
ous manner. Bailey, 1727, Supp. 
hazardousness (haz'iir-dus-nes), n. The state 
or quality of being hazardous. Bailey, 1727. 
hazardryt (haz'ard-ri), n. [< ME. hasardrie, 
hasardrye, < hasard, a game of chance : see haz- 
ard.] 1 . The playing of the game of hazard ; 
dicing; gaming. 
O glotonie, luxurie and hntnrdri/e. 
Chaucer, Pardoner's Tale, 1. 435. 
Take a Toppe, yif thou wolt pleye. 
And not at the hasardrye. 
Vernon MS., fol. 310, col. 1. 
Some fell to daunce ; some f el to hazardry. 
Spenser, F. Q., III. L 67. 
2. Rashness; temerity. 
Hasty wroth, and heedlesse hazardry, 
Doe breede repentaunce late, and lasting infamy. 
Spenser, F. Q., II. v. 18. 
hazard-table (haz'ard-ta'bl), . A table at 
which games of chance are played, especially 
with dice. 
haze 1 (baz), n. [Formerly also hose; the earli- 
est instances (namely, of haze, v., and hazy, a. : 
see quot.) are of the latter part of the 17th 
century. Origin unknown ; there is nothing to 
connect the word with AS. hasu, haso, gray (ap- 
plied to the dove, eagle, wolf, to smoke, to 
garments, etc., but not to the weather), = Icel. 
/toss, gray (applied to the eagle, wolf, the hair 
of the head, etc., but not to the weather).] 
The aggregation of a countless multitude of 
extremely minute and even ultra-microscopic 
particles in the air, individually invisible, but 
producing in the aggregate an opaqueness of 
the atmosphere. Unlike fog, haze is commonly ob- 
served when the lower air is in a state of unusual dryness, 
sometimes appearing in horizontal strata at an average al- 
titude of about 1,500 feet, and again often diffused through 
the air up to a much greater height and having no defi- 
nite locus. In the common form that occurs when the 
upper air is in a state of incipient cloudiness, the parti- 
cles are very minute droplets of water with or without an 
admixture of smoke or dust ; in other cases, the particles 
consist of organic or inorganic matter carried to high alti- 
tudes by convertive and other ascending currents. The 
former has been termed water-haze, and usually appears 
gray or bluish in reflected light, and yellow, orange, or red 
in transmitted light ; the latter is called dust-haze, and may 
be distinguished by its bulf tint. =Syn. Mint, Fog, etc. 
See rain, n. 
haze 1 (haz), v. i. ; pret. and pp. hazed, ppr. haz- 
ing. [< hazel, .] If. To drizzle. 
It hazes, it misles, or rains small rain. 
Kay, Collection of North. Eng. Words (ed. 1691). 
2. To be orjjecome foggy or hazy. [Rare.] 
haze 2 (haz), v. ; pret. and pp. hazed, ppr. haz- 
ing. [Formerly also hase; < OF. hascr, irri- 
tate, vex, annoy, insult (Godefroy).] I. trans. 
1. To harass with labor ; punish with unneces- 
sary work, as a seaman. 
Every shifting of the studding-sails was only to haze the 
crew. R. H. Dana, Jr., Before the Mast, p. 50. 
2. To play mischievous or abusive tricks on ; 
try the pluck or temper of, especially by physi- 
cal persecution, as lower-class students in a 
college or new-comers in an establishment of 
any kind. 
'Tis the Sophomores rushing the Freshmen to haze. 
Poem before ladma, quoted in College Words, p. 251. 
II. intrans. To frolic; lark. [Colloq., U. S.] 
Hazin' round with Charity Bunker and the rest of the 
gals. Wise, Tales for the Marines. 
hazeck (ha'zek), n. Same as haysuck. [Prov. 
Eng.] 
hazel (ha'zl), n. and a. [Also haste, early mod. 
E. hasel, hasil, < ME. hasel, hesil, < AS. hassel = D. 
hazel(aar) = OHG. liasala, f., hasal, m., MHG. 
G. hasel, f., = Icel. hasl, m., hesli, n., = Sw. 
hazelnut 
Dan. hassel = L. corulus, corylus (for "c 
= W. coll, hazel. The form suggests a con- 
nection with harcl, OHG. haso, G. hase; but 
this is uncertain.] I. . A plant of the ge- 
nus Coryltts, shrubs or small trees belonging to 
the natural order Cupuliferai, or oak family, and 
giving name to the tribe Coryliir, to which the 
hornbeams also belong. The European ha/el, Cory- 
lus Avellana, may become a small tree, and its wood has 
valuable qualities. The American hazel, C. Americana, is 
a bush, usually growing in dense thickets from which it 
excludes nearly all other vegetation. The beaked hazel is 
C. rostrata, the more northern of the American species. 
Impressions of leaves have been found in a fossil state 
( a) Fossil and (*) Recent Leaf of Hazel {Coryltts Americana). 
Hazel (Corylus Americana), 
a, female catkin : f>. female flower ; f, male catkin ; d, male flower. 
which cannot be distinguished from the leaves of C. 
Americana aud C. rostrata. These impressions occur in 
what is known to geologists as the Fort Union group, of 
Upper Cretaceous or Lower Tertiary age, in the lower 
Yellowstone valley in Montana. The type is therefore 
very ancient. See Corylug. 
Their bowes are of tough nasill, the strings of Leather, 
arrowes of Canes or Hasill, headed with stones or homes, 
and artificially feathered. Pmchas, Pilgrimage, p. 762. 
The younger people making holiday . . . 
Went nutting to the hazels. 
Tennyson, Enoch Arden. 
II. a. [Attrib. use of the noun. The older 
adj. is hazelen.] 1. Made of or belonging to 
the hazel. 
They hung me up by the heels, and beat me with hazel- 
sticks, as if they would have baked me, and have cozened 
somebody with me for venison. 
Beau, and Fl., King and No King, iii. 2. 
2. Of a light-brown color, like the hazelnut. 
Thou wilt quarrel with a man for cracking nuts, having 
DO other reason but because thou hast hazel eyes. 
Shak., B. and J., lit 1. 
hazel-crottles (ha'zl-krot'lz), n. A species of 
lichen, Sticta pulmonaria, used in dyeing yarn 
and woolen goods. It is also a tonic and an astringent, 
and has been used for flavoring beer, for making dietr 
drinks or Jellies for invalids, and by the Swedish peasants 
for epidemic catarrh in cattle and sheep. Also called hazel- 
ray or hazel-raw. See Sticta. [North. Eng.] 
hazel-earth (ha'zl-erth), . Soil suitable for 
the hazel; fertile loam. [Eng.] 
hazelent, a. [< ME. *haslen, heslyn, < AS. haislen, 
< ha:sel, hazel: see hazel and -en 2 .] Pertaining 
to or composed of hazel. 
Holtis and hare woddes, with hesljine schawes. 
Morte Arthwre (E. E. T. 8.), 1. 2504. 
hazeless (haz'les), a. [< haze 1 + -less.'} With- 
out haze ; free from haze. 
hazel-grouse (ha'zl-grous), n. A name of the 
European ruffed grouse, Bonasa betulina, from 
its frequenting thickets of hazel. 
hazel-hen (ha'zl-hen), n. Same as hazel-grouse. 
Si. Beanus protected the cranes and hazel-hens which 
built their nests upon the Ulster mountains. 
C. Elton, Origins of Eng. Hist., p. 298. 
hazelly (ha'zl-i), a. [< hazel + -fy 1 or -yl.] Of 
the color of the hazelnut; of a light brown. 
[Rare.] 
hazelnut (ha'zl -nut), n. [< ME. haselnote, < 
AS. hceselhnutu (= D. hazelnoot = MLG. hasel- 
note = OHG. hasalnitz, G. haselnuss = Dan. has- 
selnod), < hasel, hazel, + hnutu, nut.] 1. The 
nut of the hazel. It consists of a hard globose or ovoid 
pericarp inclosing a single pendulous seed composed of two 
equal, thick, fleshy hemispherical cotyledons with a very 
short superior radicle surrounded by a membranaceous 
testa, the whole inclosed in two large and more or less 
fleshy coherent bracts with foliaceous summits, in Corylus 
rostrata prolonged into a beak. The nuts are sometimes 
solitary, but usually more or less clustered. The nutri- 
tious and edible part, or "meat," of the nut is the fleshy 
cotyledons, which are very agreeably flavored. Hazelnut- 
uil is used in mixing paints and perfumes. It is also 
taken for coughs. 
