venture (ventur)

[ I shall yow telle of a ventur certeyn, And that a strange, if it please yow to here. II. trans. 1. To expose to hazard; risk; stake. We all are soldiers, and all venture lives. Beau, and Fl . , King and No King, i. 1. If every hair of my head were a man, in this quarrel I would venture them all. Quoted in Macaulay's Hist. Eng., v. I should venture purgatory for 't. Shak., Othello, iv. 3. 77. No, no, I'll walk late no more; I ought le to venture it than other people, and so I was told. Swift , Journal to Stella, June 30, 1711. 3. To put or send on a venture or commercial speculation. The catle were ye best goods, for ye other, being ventured ware, were neither at ye best (some of them) nor at ye best prises. Bradford , Plymouth Plantation, p. 201. 4. To confide in; rely on; trust. [Rare.] A man would be well enough pleased to buy silks of one whom he would not venture to feel his pulse. Add is on, Spectator, No. 21.