Emily Dickinson Lexicon

JEOP'ARD-Y, n. [jep'ardy; The origin of this word is not settled. Some authors suppose it to be Fr. j'ai perdu, I have lost, or jeu perdu, a lost game. Tyrwhitt supposes it to be jeu parti, an even game, or game in which the chances are even. “Si nous les voyons à jeu parti.” If we see them at an even game. Froissart, vol. i, c. 234. But jeopardy may be corrupted from the G. gefahr, danger, hazard; gefährden, to hazard, to jeopard. See Fare.]

Exposure to death, loss or injury; hazard; danger; peril. They were filled with water and were in jeopardy. – Luke viii.