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Webster's English Dictionary

venture

n. [Aphetic form of OE. aventure. See Adventure.]1. An undertaking of chance or danger; the risking of something upon an event which can not be foreseen with certainty; a hazard; a risk; a speculation. ()

I, in this venture, double gains pursue. (Dryden.)

2. An event that is not, or can not be, foreseen; an accident; chance; hap; contingency; luck. (Bacon.)

3. The thing put to hazard; a stake; a risk; especially, something sent to sea in trade. ()

My ventures are not in one bottom trusted. (Shak.)

At a venture, at hazard; without seeing the end or mark; without foreseeing the issue; at random. ()

A certain man drew a bow at a venture. (1 Kings xxii. 34.)

A bargain at a venture made. (Hudibras.)

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v. i. 1. To hazard one's self; to have the courage or presumption to do, undertake, or say something; to dare. (Bunyan.)

2. To make a venture; to run a hazard or risk; to take the chances. ()

Who freights a ship to venture on the seas. (J. Dryden, Jr.)

To venture at, or To venture on or To venture upon, to dare to engage in; to attempt without any certainty of success; as, it is rash to venture upon such a project. When I venture at the comic style. Waller. ()

v. t. 1. To expose to hazard; to risk; to hazard; as, to venture one's person in a balloon. ()

I am afraid; and yet I'll venture it. (Shak.)

2. To put or send on a venture or chance; as, to venture a horse to the West Indies. ()

3. To confide in; to rely on; to trust. ()

A man would be well enough pleased to buy silks of one whom he would not venture to feel his pulse. (Addison.)