adventurer (adventurer)

[Late ME. ad ventorer, a gamester, suggested by F. aventurier, with same sense, II. n. One who or that which comes from without; an immigrant. That the natives be not so many, but that there may be elbow-room enough for them, and for the adventives also, Bacon , Advice to Villiers, adventryt (ad-ven'tri), n . [ adventure , as if * ad ventury.] An enterprise; an adventure. [Rare.] Act a brave work, call it thy last adventry . B. Jonson, Epigrams.