hazard sb.: (2 the prevailing sense; 4 cf. ‘Pelouse . . . the lower hazard in a tennis-court’ Cotgr.)
1.
game at dice at which the chances
are complicated by a number of arbitrary rules H5 III. vii. 98; hence
fig. “come” or “go to ,” to run extreme
risks Mer.V. II. ix. 18, H5 III. vii. 98.
2.
venture, chance,
(hence) risk, peril, jeopardy;— phr. “on (the) hazard,” at
stake Troil. Prol. 22 “Sets
all on ,”
Cæs. V. i. 68;
“put in ,” risked Cor. II. iii. 264.
3.
thing risked or
staked Mer.V. I. i. 152.
4.
each of the winning
openings in a tennis-court
H5 I. ii. 263
“We will in France . . .
play a set Shall strike his father's
crown into the hazard.”
