to take what may befall one, submit to whatever may happen; to ‘risk it’. So †to stand to one's chance (obsolete), to stand one's chance.

Penitential fare (suitable for fast days), meagre food; poor hospitality. to take penance: to accept another's hospitality without any special…

intransitive. To roll a die or dice; to play at dice.

to buy a pig (in Scotl. a cat) in a poke: (French acheter chat en poche) to purchase something which one has not examined; hence, to enter into an…

Phrases. to throw the helve after the hatchet: after losing or risking so much, to risk all that is left; to go the whole length regardless of loss…

In extended use. To gamble one's entire position, or all of one's hopes and chances; to stake one's all (usually with on, upon). Also: to place one's…

Any undertaking the outcome of which is uncertain; an experiment; a test of luck. Obsolete.

Phrase. to make a shaft or a bolt of it: to risk making something or other out of it; to accept the issue whatever it may be, to run the risk…

A mishap, disaster. to run a fortune (= French courir fortune de): to run a risk. Obsolete.

U.S. to run for luck: to trust to luck, to take one's chance.

to go the vole, to run every risk in the hope of great gain; to try all shifts.

intransitive. To come about by chance; to happen, occur, fall out, come to pass. with the event as subject, expressed either by a noun preceding the…

colloquial phrase to chance one's arm: to perform an action in the face of probable failure; to take one's chance of doing something successfully…

to take a chanceor chances: to take a risk or risks. Originally U.S.

intransitive. To take a chance that a desired result will be achieved or state of affairs be the case.