Emily Dickinson Lexicon

HAZ'ARD, v.t. [Fr. hasarder.]

1. To expose to chance; to put in danger of loss or injury to venture; to risk; as, to hazard life to save a friend; to hazard an estate on the throw of a die; to hazard salvation for temporal pleasure. Men hazard nothing by a course of evangelical obedience. J. Clarke.
2. To venture to incur, or bring on; as, to hazard the loss of reputation.