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Per- :: Per- () A prefix used to signify through, throughout, by, for, or as an intensive as perhaps, by hap or chance; perennial, that lasts throughout the year; perforce, through or by force; perfoliate, perforate; perspicuous, evident throughout or very evident; perplex, literally, to entangle very much..

Adventure :: Adventure (n.) That which happens without design; chance; hazard; hap; hence, chance of danger or loss..

Handicap :: Handicap (n.) A race, for horses or men, or any contest of agility, strength, or skill, in which there is an allowance of time, distance, weight, or other advantage, to equalize the chances of the competitors..

Raffle :: Raffle (v.) A kind of lottery, in which several persons pay, in shares, the value of something put up as a stake, and then determine by chance (as by casting dice) which one of them shall become the sole possessor..

Report :: Report (v. t.) An official statement of facts, verbal or written; especially, a statement in writing of proceedings and facts exhibited by an officer to his superiors; as, the reports of the heads af departments to Congress, of a master in chancery to the court, of committees to a legislative body, and the like..

Habnab :: Habnab (adv.) By chance.

Welsher :: Welsher (n.) One who cheats at a horse race; one who bets, without a chance of being able to pay; one who receives money to back certain horses and absconds with it..

Sedilia :: Sedilia (n. pl.) Seats in the chancel of a church near the altar for the officiating clergy during intervals of service.

Chance-medley :: Chance-medley (n.) The killing of another in self-defense upon a sudden and unpremeditated encounter. See Chaud-Medley.

Reis Effendi :: Reis Effendi () A title formerly given to one of the chief Turkish officers of state. He was chancellor of the empire, etc..

Venture :: Venture (v. t.) To put or send on a venture or chance; as, to venture a horse to the West Indies..

Aulic :: Aulic (n.) The ceremony observed in conferring the degree of doctor of divinity in some European universities. It begins by a harangue of the chancellor addressed to the young doctor, who then receives the cap, and presides at the disputation (also called the aulic)..

Chanceful :: Chanceful (a.) Hazardous.

Hedge :: Hedge (v. i.) To reduce the risk of a wager by making a bet against the side or chance one has bet on.

Prize :: Prize (n.) That which may be won by chance, as in a lottery..

Sort :: Sort (n.) A chance group; a company of persons who happen to be together; a troop; also, an assemblage of animals..

Folio :: Folio (n.) A leaf containing a certain number of words, hence, a certain number of words in a writing, as in England, in law proceedings 72, and in chancery, 90; in New York, 100 words..

Fortune :: Fortune (n.) The arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner; chance; accident; luck; hap; also, the personified or deified power regarded as determining human success, apportioning happiness and unhappiness, and distributing arbitrarily or fortuitously the lots of life..

Roustabout :: Roustabout (n.) A laborer, especially a deck hand, on a river steamboat, who moves the cargo, loads and unloads wood, and the like; in an opprobrious sense, a shiftless vagrant who lives by chance jobs..

Paraventure :: Paraventure (adv.) Peradventure; perchance.

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