The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hazardry \Haz"ard*ry\ (-r[y^]), n.
Playing at hazard; gaming; gambling. [R.]
--Chaucer.Rashness; temerity. [R.]
--Spenser.
Wiktionary
n. (context obsolete English) gambling.
Usage examples of "hazardry".
If that a prince use hazardry, In alle governance and policy He is, as by common opinion, Y-hold the less in reputation.
With regard to instances of jointed authorship, unless there be some definite declaration on the part of one of the authors as to his particular share in a work, or unless there be some unusual and special circumstances bearing on the point, such perquisitions and analysis almost inevitably resolve themselves into a cloud of guess-work and bootless hazardry and vague perhaps.
Meanwhile I have to move: That an address unto His Royal Highness Be humbly offered for his gracious message, And to assure him that his faithful Commons Are fully roused to the dark hazardries To which the life and equanimity Of Europe are exposed by deeds in France, In contravention of the plighted pacts At Paris in the course of yester-year.