Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter H - Page 16
Hazard (v. i.) To try the chance; to encounter risk or danger.
Hazard (v. t.) 冒險作出；嘗試；大膽提出；【書】使冒危險；冒……的危險 To expose to the operation of chance; to put in danger of loss or injury; to venture; to risk.
Men hazard nothing by a course of evangelical obedience. -- John Clarke.
He hazards his neck to the halter. -- Fuller.
Hazard (v. t.) To venture to incur, or bring on.
I hazarded the loss of whom I loved. -- Shak.
They hazard to cut their feet. -- Landor.
Syn: To venture; risk; jeopard; peril; endanger.
Hazard (n.) 危險；危害物；危險之源 [C] [（+to）]；機會；偶然的事 [U]；擲骰子遊戲 A game of chance played with dice.
Hazard (n.) The uncertain result of throwing a die; hence, a fortuitous event; chance; accident; casualty.
I will stand the hazard of the die. -- Shak.
Hazard (n.) Risk; danger; peril; as, he encountered the enemy at the hazard of his reputation and life.
Men are led on from one stage of life to another in a condition of the utmost hazard. -- Rogers.
Hazard (n.) (Billiards) Holing a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard).
Hazard (n.) Anything that is hazarded or risked, as the stakes in gaming. "Your latter hazard." -- Shak.
Hazard (n.) (Golf) Any place into which the ball may not be safely played, such as bunkers, furze, water, sand, or other kind of bad ground.
{Hazard table}, A table on which hazard is played, or any game of chance for stakes.
{To run the hazard}, To take the chance or risk.
{To hazard}, At risk; liable to suffer damage or loss.
Syn: Danger; risk; chance. See {Danger}.
Hazard (n.) A source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune; "drinking alcohol is a health hazard" [syn: {hazard}, {jeopardy}, {peril}, {risk}, {endangerment}].
Hazard (n.) An unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another; "bad luck caused his downfall"; "we ran into each other by pure chance" [syn: {luck}, {fortune}, {chance}, {hazard}].
Hazard (n.) An obstacle on a golf course.
Hazard (v.) Put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation; "I am guessing that the price of real estate will rise again"; "I cannot pretend to say that you are wrong" [syn: {guess}, {venture}, {pretend}, {hazard}].
Hazard (v.) Put at risk; "I will stake my good reputation for this" [syn: {venture}, {hazard}, {adventure}, {stake}, {jeopardize}].
Hazard (v.) Take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome; "When you buy these stocks you are gambling" [syn: {gamble}, {chance}, {risk}, {hazard}, {take chances}, {adventure}, {run a risk}, {take a chance}].
Hazarded (imp. & p. p.) of Hazard.
Hazarding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hazard.
Hazard (n.) [ C ] (C1) 危險物，危害物 Something that is dangerous and likely to cause damage.
// A health/ fire hazard.
// The busy traffic entrance was a hazard to pedestrians.
Hazard (v.) [ T ] 冒險（尤指猜測、建議等） To risk doing something, especially making a guess, suggestion, etc.
// I wouldn't like to hazard a guess.
Hazard (v.) [ T ] (Formal) 使遭受危險 To risk doing something that might cause harm to someone or something else.
// The policy hazarded the islands and put the lives of the inhabitants at risk.
Hazardable (a.) 不確定的；危險的；冒險的；大膽的 Liable to hazard or chance; uncertain; risky. -- Sir T. Browne.
Hazardable (a.) Such as can be hazarded or risked.
Hazarder (n.) 賭徒 A player at the game of hazard; a gamester. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Hazarder (n.) One who hazards or ventures.
Hazardize (n.) (Obsolete) 危害 A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard.
Hazardous (a.) 有危險的；冒險的 Exposed to hazard; dangerous; risky.
To enterprise so hazardous and high! -- Milton.
Syn: Perilous; dangerous; bold; daring; adventurous; venturesome; precarious; uncertain. -- Haz"ard*ous*ly, adv. -- Haz"ard*ous*ness, n.
Hazardous (a.) Involving risk or danger; "skydiving is a hazardous sport"; "extremely risky going out in the tide and fog"; "a wild financial scheme" [syn: hazardous, risky, wild].
Hazardry (n.) 賭博 Playing at hazard; gaming; gambling. [R.]
Hazardry (n.) 輕率；魯莽；冒失 Rashness; temerity. [R.] -- Spenser.
Haze (n.) (Graphics) An X Window System window manager designed to be light-weight and look like MacOS. Haze is based on mlvwm. It support virtual desktops, configurable menu bar and shaded windows.
{Haze home }. (2010-05-03)
Haze (n.) 霾，薄霧 [C] [U]；朦朧；模糊 [C ] Light vapor or smoke in the air which more or less impedes vision, with little or no dampness; a lack of transparency in the air; hence, figuratively, obscurity; dimness.
O'er the sky The silvery haze of summer drawn. -- Tennyson.
Above the world's uncertain haze. -- Keble.
Haze (n.) A state of confusion, uncertainty, or vagueness of thought or perception; as, after the explosion, people were wandering around in a haze.
Haze (v. i.) 變朦朧，變糊塗 To be hazy, or tick with haze. -- Ray.
Hazed (imp. & p. p.) of Haze.
Hazing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Haze.
Haze (v. t.) 使變朦朧，使變糊塗，使勞累 To harass by exacting unnecessary, disagreeable, or difficult work.
Haze (v. t.) To harass or annoy by playing abusive or shameful tricks upon; to humiliate by practical jokes; -- used esp. of college students; as, the sophomores hazed a freshman.
Haze (n.) Atmospheric moisture or dust or smoke that causes reduced visibility.
Haze (n.) Confusion characterized by lack of clarity [syn: {daze}, {fog}, {haze}].
Haze (v.) Become hazy, dull, or cloudy.
Haze (v.) Harass by imposing humiliating or painful tasks, as in military institutions.
Hazel (n.) A shrub or small tree of the genus Corylus, as the C. avellana, bearing a nut containing a kernel of a mild, farinaceous taste; the filbert. The American species are C. Americana, which produces the common hazelnut, and C. rostrata. See Filbert.
Hazel (n.) A miner's name for freestone.
Hazel (a.) Consisting of hazels, or of the wood of the hazel; pertaining to, or derived from, the hazel; as, a hazel wand.
Hazel (a.) Of a light brown color, like the hazelnut.
Hazeless (a.) Destitute of haze.
Hazelly (a.) Of the color of the hazelnut; of a light brown.
Hazelnut (n.) The nut of the hazel.
Hazelwort (n.) The asarabacca.
Hazily (adv.) In a hazy manner; mistily; obscurely; confusedly.
Haziness (n.) The quality or state of being hazy.
Hazle (v. t.) To make dry; to dry.
Hazy (n.) Thick with haze; somewhat obscured with haze; not clear or transparent.
Hazy (n.) Obscure; confused; not clear; as, a hazy argument; a hazy intellect.
He (obj.) The man or male being (or object personified to which the masculine gender is assigned), previously designated; a pronoun of the masculine gender, usually referring to a specified subject already indicated.
He (obj.) Any one; the man or person; -- used indefinitely, and usually followed by a relative pronoun.
He (obj.) Man; a male; any male person; -- in this sense used substantively.
-head (suffix.) A variant of -hood.
Head (n.) The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher animals, the chief sensory organs; poll; cephalon.
Head (n.) The uppermost, foremost, or most important part of an inanimate object; such a part as may be considered to resemble the head of an animal; often, also, the larger, thicker, or heavier part or extremity, in distinction from the smaller or thinner part, or from the point or edge; as, the head of a cane, a nail, a spear, an ax, a mast, a sail, a ship; that which covers and closes the top or the end of a hollow vessel; as, the head of a cask or a steam boiler.
Head (n.) The place where the head should go; as, the head of a bed, of a grave, etc.; the head of a carriage, that is, the hood which covers the head.
Head (n.) The most prominent or important member of any organized body; the chief; the leader; as, the head of a college, a school, a church, a state, and the like.
Head (n.) The place or honor, or of command; the most important or foremost position; the front; as, the head of the table; the head of a column of soldiers.
Head (n.) Each one among many; an individual; -- often used in a plural sense; as, a thousand head of cattle.
Head (n.) The seat of the intellect; the brain; the understanding; the mental faculties; as, a good head, that is, a good mind; it never entered his head, it did not occur to him; of his own head, of his own thought or will.
Head (n.) The source, fountain, spring, or beginning, as of a stream or river; as, the head of the Nile; hence, the altitude of the source, or the height of the surface, as of water, above a given place, as above an orifice at which it issues, and the pressure resulting from the height or from motion; sometimes also, the quantity in reserve; as, a mill or reservoir has a good head of water, or ten feet head; also, that part of a gulf or bay most remote from the outlet or the sea.
Head (n.) A headland; a promontory; as, Gay Head.
Head (n.) A separate part, or topic, of a discourse; a theme to be expanded; a subdivision; as, the heads of a sermon.
Head (n.) Culminating point or crisis; hence, strength; force; height.
Head (n.) Power; armed force.
Head (n.) A headdress; a covering of the head; as, a laced head; a head of hair.
Head (n.) An ear of wheat, barley, or of one of the other small cereals.
Head (n.) A dense cluster of flowers, as in clover, daisies, thistles; a capitulum.
Head (n.) A dense, compact mass of leaves, as in a cabbage or a lettuce plant.
Head (n.) The antlers of a deer.
Head (n.) A rounded mass of foam which rises on a pot of beer or other effervescing liquor.
Head (n.) Tiles laid at the eaves of a house.
Head (a.) Principal; chief; leading; first; as, the head master of a school; the head man of a tribe; a head chorister; a head cook.
Headed (imp. & p. p.) of Head.
Heading (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Head.
Head (v. t.) To be at the head of; to put one's self at the head of; to lead; to direct; to act as leader to; as, to head an army, an expedition, or a riot.
Head (v. t.) To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head; as, to head a nail.
Head (v. t.) To behead; to decapitate.
Head (v. t.) To cut off the top of; to lop off; as, to head trees.
Head (v. t.) To go in front of; to get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose; hence, to check or restrain; as, to head a drove of cattle; to head a person; the wind heads a ship.
Head (v. t.) To set on the head; as, to head a cask.
Head (v. i.) To originate; to spring; to have its source, as a river.
Head (v. i.) To go or point in a certain direction; to tend; as, how does the ship head?
Head (v. i.) To form a head; as, this kind of cabbage heads early.
Headache (n.) Pain in the head; cephalalgia.
Headachy (a.) Afflicted with headache.
Headband (n.) A fillet; a band for the head.
Headband (n.) The band at each end of the back of a book.
Headbeard (n.) A board or boarding which marks or forms the head of anything; as, the headboard of a bed; the headboard of a grave.
Headborough (n.) Alt. of Headborrow.
Headborrow (n.) The chief of a frankpledge, tithing, or decennary, consisting of ten families; -- called also borsholder, boroughhead, boroughholder, and sometimes tithingman. See Borsholder.
Headborrow (n.) A petty constable.
Head-cheese (n.) A dish made of portions of the head, or head and feet, of swine, cut up fine, seasoned, and pressed into a cheeselike mass.
Headdress (n.) A covering or ornament for the head; a headtire.
Headdress (n.) A manner of dressing the hair or of adorning it, whether with or without a veil, ribbons, combs, etc.
Headed (a.) Furnished with a head (commonly as denoting intellectual faculties); -- used in composition; as, clear-headed, long-headed, thick-headed; a many-headed monster.
Headed (a.) Formed into a head; as, a headed cabbage.
Header (n.) One who, or that which, heads nails, rivets, etc., esp. a machine for heading.
Header (n.) One who heads a movement, a party, or a mob; head; chief; leader. [R.]
Header (n.) (Arch.) A brick or stone laid with its shorter face or head in the surface of the wall.
Header (n.) (Arch.) In framing, the piece of timber fitted between two trimmers, and supported by them, and carrying the ends of the tailpieces.
Header (n.) A reaper for wheat, that cuts off the heads only.
Header (n.) A fall or plunge headforemost, as while riding a bicycle, or in bathing; as, to take a header. [Colloq.] Headfirst
Header (n.) A line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about; "the heading seemed to have little to do with the text" [syn: heading, header, head].
Header (n.) Horizontal beam used as a finishing piece over a door or window [syn: header, lintel].
Header (n.) Brick that is laid sideways at the top of a wall [syn: header, coping, cope].
Header (n.) A framing member crossing and supporting the ends of joists, studs, or rafters so as to transfer their weight to parallel joists, studs, or rafters.
Header (n.) A machine that cuts the heads off grain and moves them into a wagon.
Header (n.) (Soccer) The act of hitting the ball with your head.
Header (n.) A headlong jump (or fall); "he took a header into the shrubbery."
Header, () The portion of a packet, preceding the actual data, containing source and destination addresses, error checking and other fields.
Header, () The part of an electronic mail message or news article that precedes the body of a message and contains, among other things, the sender's name and e-mail address and the date and time the message was sent.
Headfirst (adv.) Alt. of Headforemost.
Headforemost (adv.) With the head foremost. -- of motion.
Headfish (n.) (Zool.) The sunfish (Mola). Head gear
Headfish (n.) Among the largest bony fish; pelagic fish having an oval compressed body with high dorsal and anal fins and caudal fin reduced to a rudder-like lobe; worldwide in warm waters [syn: ocean sunfish, sunfish, mola, headfish].
Head gear (n.) Alt. of Headgear.
Headgear (n.) Headdress.
Headgear (n.) Apparatus above ground at the mouth of a mine or deep well.
Headgear (n.) Clothing for the head [syn: headdress, headgear].
Headgear (n.) The hoist at the pithead of a mine.
Headgear (n.) Stable gear consisting of any part of a harness that fits about the horse's head.
Head-hunter (n.) A member of any tribe or race of savages who have the custom of decapitating human beings and preserving their heads as trophies. The Dyaks of Borneo are the most noted head-hunters.
Head-hunter (n.) A person whose profession is to find executives to fill open positions in corporations; an executive personnel recruiter; also, a company that performs a similar service. -- Head"-hunt`ing, n.
Headily (adv.) In a heady or rash manner; hastily; rashly; obstinately.
Headiness (n.) The quality of being heady.