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danger

DANGER, n. Peril; risk; hazard; exposure to injury, loss, pain or other evil.

Our craft is in danger to be set at nought. Acts
xix.

It is easy to boast of despising death, when there
is no danger.

DANGER, v.t. To put in hazard; to expose to loss or injury.



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DANGER, n. Peril; risk; hazard; exposure to injury, loss, pain or other evil.

Our craft is in danger to be set at nought. Acts
xix.

It is easy to boast of despising death, when there
is no danger.

DANGER, v.t. To put in hazard; to expose to loss or injury.


DAN'GER, n. [Fr. Arm. Scot. danger; Norm. daungerous, dubious. This word in Scottish, according to Jamieson, signifies peril, power, or dominion, doubt, hesitation. In Chaucer, it signifies peril, and coyness, sparingness or custody. In old English laws, it denotes a payment in money by forest tenants, to their lord, for permission to plow and sow in the time of pannage or mast-feeding. The primary sense is not obvious. Spenser has the following couplet. Valiant he should be as fire, / Showing danger more than ire.]

Peril; risk; hazard; exposure to injury, loss, pain, or other evil. It is easy to boast of despising death, when there is no danger. Our craft is in danger to be set at naught. – Acts xix.


DAN'GER, v.t.

To put in hazard; to expose to loss or injury. – Shak. But rarely used. [See Endanger, which is generally used.]


Dan"ger
  1. Authority; jurisdiction; control.

    [Obs.]

    In dangerhad he . . . the young girls. Chaucer.

  2. To endanger.

    [Obs.] Shak.
  3. Power to harm; subjection or liability to penalty.

    [Obs.] See In one's danger, below.

    You stand within his danger, do you not? Shak.

    Covetousness of gains hath brought [them] in dangerof this statute. Robynson (More's Utopia).

  4. Exposure to injury, loss, pain, or other evil; peril; risk; insecurity.
  5. Difficulty; sparingness.

    [Obs.] Chaucer.
  6. Coyness; disdainful behavior.

    [Obs.] Chaucer.

    In one's danger, in one's power; liable to a penalty to be inflicted by him. [Obs.] This sense is retained in the proverb, "Out of debt out of danger."

    Those rich man in whose debt and danger they be not. Robynson (More's Utopia).

    -- To do danger, to cause danger. [Obs.] Shak.

    Syn. -- Peril; hazard; risk; jeopardy. -- Danger, Peril, Hazard, Risk, Jeopardy. Danger is the generic term, and implies some contingent evil in prospect. Peril is instant or impending danger; as, in peril of one's life. Hazard arises from something fortuitous or beyond our control; as, the hazard of the seas. Risk is doubtful or uncertain danger, often incurred voluntarily; as, to risk an engagement. Jeopardy is extreme danger. Danger of a contagious disease; the perils of shipwreck; the hazards of speculation; the risk of daring enterprises; a life brought into jeopardy.

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Danger

DANGER, noun Peril; risk; hazard; exposure to injury, loss, pain or other evil.

Our craft is in danger to be set at nought. Acts 19:27.

It is easy to boast of despising death, when there

is no danger

DANGER, verb transitive To put in hazard; to expose to loss or injury.

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importance

IMPORT'ANCE, n.

1. Weight; consequence; a bearing on some interest; that quality of any thing by which it may affect a measure, interest or result. The education of youth is of great importance to a free government. A religious education is of infinite importance to every human being.

2. Weight or consequence in the scale of being.

Thy own importance know.

Nor bound thy narrow views to things below.

3. Weight or consequence in self-estimation.

He believes himself a man of importance.

4. Thing implied; matter; subject; importunity. [In these senses, obsolete.]

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steal

STEAL, v.t. pret. stole; pp. stolen, stole. [G. L, to take, to lift.]

1. To take and carry away feloniously, as the personal goods of another. To constitute stealing or theft, the taking must be felonious, that is, with an intent to take what belongs to another, and without his consent.

Let him that stole, steal no more. Ephesians 4.

2. To Withdraw or convey without notice or clandestinely.

They could insinuate and steal themselves under the same by submission.

3. To gain or win by address or gradual and imperceptible means.

Variety of objects has a tendency to steal away the mind from its steady pursuit of any subject.

So Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel. 2 Samuel 15.

STEAL, v.i.

1. To withdraw or pass privily; to slip along or away unperceived.

Fixed of mind to fly all company, one night she stole away.

From whom you now must steal and take no leave.

A soft and solemn breathing sound rose like a steam of rich distilld perfumes, and stole upon the air.

2. To practice theft; to take feloniously. He steals for a livelihood.

Thou shalt not steal. Exodus 20.

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