An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
HAZARDING
Verb
hazarding
present participle of hazard
Noun
hazarding (plural hazardings)
Something hazarded or ventured; a guess or speculation.
Source: Wiktionary
HAZARD
Haz"ard, n. Etym: [F. hazard, Sp. azar an unforeseen disaster or accident, an unfortunate card or throw at dice, prob. fr. Ar. zahr, zar, a die, which, with the article al the, would give azzahr, azzar.]
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
Definition: 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. Hazard table, a a table on which hazard is played, or any game of chance for stakes.
– To ru, to take the chance or risk.
Syn.
– Danger; risk; chance. See Danger.
Haz"ard, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hazarded; p. pr. & vb. Hazarding.] Etym: [Cf. F. hazarder. See Hazard, n.]
1. To expose to the operation of chance; to put in danger of loss or injury; to venture; to risk. Men hazard nothing by a course of evangelical obedience. John Clarke. He hazards his neck to the halter. Fuller.
2. To venture to incur, or bring on. I hazarded the loss of whom I loved. Shak. They hazard to cut their feet. Landor.
Syn.
– To venture; risk; jeopard; peril; endanger.
Haz"ard, v. i.
Definition: To try the chance; to encounter risk or danger. Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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