Emily Dickinson Lexicon

VENTURE, v.

1. To dare; to have courage or presumption to do, undertake or say. A man ventures to mount a ladder; he ventures into battle; he ventures to assert things which he does not know.
2. To run a hazard or risk. Who freights a ship to venture on the seas. Dryden. To venture at, to dare to engage in; to attempt. To venture on or upon, without any certainty of success. It is rash to venture upon such a project. And when I venture at the comic style.