‖n. [ fr. Ar. al the + qacr (in pl.) a castle. ] A fortress; also, a royal palace. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

See Alcazar. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. azerole, the name of the fruit, fr. Ar. az-zo'r&unr_;r: cf. It. azzeruolo, Sp. acerolo. ] (Bot.) The Neapolitan medlar (Cratægus azarolus), a shrub of southern Europe; also, its fruit. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Per. bāzar market. ] 1. In the East, an exchange, marketplace, or assemblage of shops where goods are exposed for sale. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A spacious hall or suite of rooms for the sale of goods, as at a fair. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A fair for the sale of fancy wares, toys, etc., commonly for a charitable purpose. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Hap + hazard. ] Extra hazard; chance; accident; random. [ 1913 Webster ]

We take our principles at haphazard, upon trust. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Determined by chance, whimsy, or guesswork; unplanned; aimless; random; -- used mostly of human actions. [ PJC ]

n. [ F. hasard, Sp. azar an unforeseen disaster or accident, an unfortunate card or throw at dice, prob. fr. Ar. zahr, zār, a die, which, with the article al the, would give azzahr, azzār. ] 1. A game of chance played with dice. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The uncertain result of throwing a die; hence, a fortuitous event; chance; accident; casualty. [ 1913 Webster ]

I will stand the hazard of the die. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Risk; danger; peril; as, he encountered the enemy at the hazard of his reputation and life. [ 1913 Webster ]

Men are led on from one stage of life to another in a condition of the utmost hazard. Rogers. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Billiards) Holing a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard). [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Anything that is hazarded or risked, as the stakes in gaming. “Your latter hazard.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Golf) Any place into which the ball may not be safely played, such as bunkers, furze, water, sand, or other kind of bad ground. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Hazarded; p. pr. & vb. n. Hazarding. ] [ Cf. F. hasarder. See Hazard, n. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To expose to the operation of chance; to put in danger of loss or injury; to venture; to risk. [ 1913 Webster ]

Men hazard nothing by a course of evangelical obedience. John Clarke. [ 1913 Webster ]

He hazards his neck to the halter. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To venture to incur, or bring on. [ 1913 Webster ]

I hazarded the loss of whom I loved. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

They hazard to cut their feet. Landor.

Syn. -- To venture; risk; jeopard; peril; endanger. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To try the chance; to encounter risk or danger. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Liable to hazard or chance; uncertain; risky. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Such as can be hazarded or risked. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A player at the game of hazard; a gamester. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who hazards or ventures. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Herself had run into that hazardize. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. hasardeux. ] Exposed to hazard; dangerous; risky. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the state of being dangerous.
Syn. -- perilousness, precariousness, danger. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. Playing at hazard; gaming; gambling. [ R. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Rashness; temerity. [ R. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. lazare, fr. Lazarus the beggar. Luke xvi. 20. ] A person infected with a filthy or pestilential disease; a leper. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Like loathsome lazars, by the hedges lay. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lazar house a lazaretto; also, a hospital for quarantine. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Med.) Typhus fever. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

{ } n. [ F. lazaret, or It. lazzeretto, fr. Lazarus. See Lazar. ] 1. A public building, hospital, or pesthouse for the reception of diseased persons, particularly those affected with contagious diseases. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Naut.) (Pronounced by seamen A low space under the after part of the main deck, used as a storeroom. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

{ } n. (R. C. Ch.) One of the Congregation of the Priests of the Mission, a religious institute founded by Vincent de Paul in 1624, and popularly called Lazarists or Lazarites from the College of St. Lazare in Paris, which was occupied by them until 1792. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Full of sores; leprous. Shak. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. See Lazzaroni. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) Laserwort. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. merise a wild cherry. ] (Bot.) A kind of small black cherry. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Prob. fr. mazer, the head being compared to a large goblet. ] The jaw; the head or skull. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t., To knock on the head. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to Cardinal Mazarin, prime minister of France, 1643-1661. [ 1913 Webster ]

Mazarine Bible, the first Bible, and perhaps the first complete book, printed with movable metal types; -- printed by Gutenberg at Mentz, 1450-55; -- so called because a copy was found in the Mazarine Library, at Paris, about 1760. --
Mazarine blue, a deep blue color, named in honor of Cardinal Mazarin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Mazarine blue. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Cookery) A forcemeat entrée. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Naphthalene + alizarin. ] (Chem.) A dyestuff, resembling alizarin, obtained from naphthoquinone as a red crystalline substance with a bright green, metallic luster; -- called also naphthalizarin. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. [ L. Nazarenus, Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; Nazareth. ] 1. A native or inhabitant of Nazareth; -- a term of contempt applied to Christ and the early Christians. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Eccl. Hist.) One of a sect of Judaizing Christians in the first and second centuries, who observed the laws of Moses, and held to certain heresies. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. A Jew bound by a vow to leave the hair uncut, to abstain from wine and strong drink, and to practice extraordinary purity of life and devotion, the obligation being for life, or for a certain time. The word is also used adjectively. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. The state of a Nazarite. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. a. Of or pertaining to a Nazarite, or to Nazarites. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. The vow and practice of a Nazarite. [ 1913 Webster ]

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