See Also: Hazard(money)
Hazard(medicine)
hazard(1)(dictionary)
hazard(2)(dictionary)
hazard 1, noun(dictionary)
hazard 2, verb(dictionary)
hazard lights(dictionary)
Moral hazard(finance)
Occupational Hazard(money)
Moral hazard(money)

hazard(1) (iou)



hazard noun. ME.
[Old & mod. French hasard from Spanish azar from colloq. Arab. az-zahr from az- AL-2 + Persian zar gaming die or Turkish zar die, dice, chance.]
A dice game in which the chances are complicated by arbitrary rules. ME.
Risk of loss or harm; (a source of) danger, jeopardy. M16.
T. O'Brien People were asking one another about the hazards of nuclear fallout.
Real Tennis. Each of the various openings or galleries around the court; spec. those which are not winning openings. M16.
Chance, venture; a chance. L16.
Lytton On what hazards turn our fate!
Something risked or staked. rare. Only in L16.
Billiards.
a. Any of the holes or pockets in the sides of a billiard-table. L16-M18.
b. A stroke by which one of the balls is driven into a pocket. Freq. in losing hazard, winning hazard below. L18.
Golf. An obstruction in playing a shot such as a bunker, water, a road, etc. M18.
Phrases: at all hazards despite all risks. at hazard arch. (a) at random; (b) at risk. losing hazard Billiards the pocketing of one's own ball off another. OCCUPATIONAL hazard. winning hazard Billiards the striking of the object-ball into a pocket.
Comb.: hazard light = hazard warning light below; hazard side Real Tennis the side of the court into which the ball is served; hazard warning light a flashing light used to warn that a vehicle is stationary or decelerating unexpectedly, usu. each of a vehicle's direction indicators operating simultaneously (usu. in pl.).