hazardousness

[Eng. hazardous: -ne .] The quality or state of being hazardous; hazard, risk, danger. *haz-ard-rỹ, *has-ard-rie, s. [O. Fr. hasard IMG:content-1031.png:[blocks in formation] "Now wol I you defenden hasardrie, Hasard is veray mother of lesinges." Chaucer: C. Т., 12,524. 2. Rashne , temerity, foolish daring. "Hasty wroth and heedle e hazardry Doe breede repent a unce late, and lasting infamy." Spenser: F. Q., II. v. 14. marine; gō, pot, pine, pit, sire, sir, The American Dictionary and Cyclopedia haze hāze, s . [A word of doubtful origin; probably allied to Icel. hö =gray, dusky; A. S. hasu , heasu =dark gray; haswig (in haswig fethere = having gray feathers). The original meaning was thus gray, dusky, hence dull. Mahn suggests Breton aézen a vapor, a warm wind.] 1. Lit .: Fog, vapor, mist; a want of transparency in the air. "Light haze along the river-shores." Tennyson: Gardener's Daughter, 259. 2. Fig .: Obscurity, dimne . "To the haze and mists and doubtful lights of that changeable week, on the answerable part of the opposite page."- Burke : On a Regicide Peace , let. 4.