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Adventure

n.
  1. That which happens without design; chance; hazard; hap; hence, chance of danger or loss.
  2. Risk; danger; peril.
  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.
  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.
    6. A bill of adventure (Com.),
    a writing setting forth that the goods shipped are at the owner's risk.

v. t.
  1. To risk, or hazard; jeopard; to venture.
  2. To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare.

v. i.
  1. To try the chance; to take the risk.