What is "to run the hazard"

Hazard \Haz"ard\ (h[a^]z"[~e]rd), n. [F. hasard, Sp. azar an unforeseen disaster or accident, an unfortunate card or throw at dice, prob. fr. Ar. zahr, z[=a]r, a die, which, with the article al the, would give azzahr, azz[=a]r.]

1. A game of chance played with dice.
   --Chaucer.

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

   I will stand the hazard of the die.
   --Shak.

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

   Men are led on from one stage of life to another in a condition of the utmost hazard.
   --Rogers.

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

5. Anything that is hazarded or risked, as the stakes in gaming. ``Your latter hazard.''
   --Shak.

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.

   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.

   Syn: Danger; risk; chance. See Danger.