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hazard 1. Golf an obstacle such as a bunker, a road, rough, water, etc. 2. a gambling game played with two dice 3. Real Tennis a. the receiver's side of the court b. one of the winning openings 4. Billiards a scoring stroke made either when a ball other than the striker's is pocketed (winning hazard) or the striker's cue ball itself (losing hazard) hazard [′haz·ərd] (industrial engineering) Any risk to which a worker is subject as a direct result (in whole or in part) of his being employed. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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"I'd like to put on the gloves with you every day for half an hour," Hazard said. She had abandoned the safe shelter of her husband's protection and the comfortable ease of a well-provided establishment for what she could not but see was an extreme hazard. [1304b] equality, as the rich and the common people; so that the part which is between them both is either nothing at all, or too little to be noticed; for if one party is so much more powerful than the other, as to be evidently stronger, that other will not be willing to hazard the danger: for which reason those who are superior in excellence and virtue will never be the cause of seditions; for they will be too few for that purpose when compared to the many. |
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