Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Hazard \Haz"ard\, n. [F. hazard, Sp. azar an unforeseen disaster
   or accident, an unfortunate card or throw at dice, prob. fr.
   Ar. zahr, z[=a]r, a die, which, with the article al the,
   would give azzahr, azz[=a]r.]
   1. A game of chance played with dice. --Chaucer.

   2. The uncertain result of throwing a die; hence, a
      fortuitous event; chance; accident; casualty.

            I will stand the hazard of the die.   --Shak.

   3. Risk; danger; peril; as, he encountered the enemy at the
      hazard of his reputation and life.

            Men are led on from one stage of life to another in
            a condition of the utmost hazard.     --Rogers

   4. (Billiards?) Holing a ball, whether the object ball
      (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard).

   5. Anything that is hazarded or risked, as the stakes in
      gaming. ``Your latter hazard.'' --Shak.

   {Hazard table}, a a table on which hazard is played, or any
      game of chance for stakes.

   {To ru? the hazard}, to take the chance or risk.

   Syn: Danger; risk; chance. See {Danger}.