Adventure /(?; 135)/

Ad·ven·ture

Adventure

n.
  1. That which happens without design; chance; hazard; hap; hence, chance of danger or loss.
    Nay, a far less good to man it will be found, if she must, at all adventures, be fastened upon him individually.
  2. Risk; danger; peril. [Obs.]
    He was in great adventure of his life.
    — Berners.
  3. The encountering of risks; hazardous and striking enterprise; a bold undertaking, in which hazards are to be encountered, and the issue is staked upon unforeseen events; a daring feat.
    He loved excitement and adventure.
  4. A remarkable occurrence; a striking event; a stirring incident; as, the adventures of one's life.
  5. A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account.

Phrases & Compounds
A bill of adventure
a writing setting forth that the goods shipped are at the owner's risk.

Adventure

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Adventured; p. pr. & vb. n. Adventuring

  1. To risk, or hazard; jeopard; to venture.
    He would not adventure himself into the theater.
    — Acts xix. 31.
  2. To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare.
    Yet they adventured to go back.
    — Bunyan,
    Discriminations might be adventured.
    — J. Taylor.

Adventure

v. i.
  1. To try the chance; to take the risk.
    I would adventure for such merchandise.