Hazard

1. To try the chance; to encounter risk or danger.
2. To venture to incur, or bring on.
3. The uncertain result of throwing a die; hence, a fortuitous event; chance; accident; casualty.
4. To expose to the operation of chance; to put in danger of loss or injury; to venture; to risk.
5. A game of chance played with dice.
6. Anything that is hazarded or risked, as the stakes in gaming.
7. Risk; danger; peril; as, he encountered the enemy at the hazard of his reputation and life.
8. Holing a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard).