Danger
(Dan"ger), v. t. To endanger. [Obs.] Shak.
Dangerful
(Dan"ger*ful) a. Full of danger; dangerous. [Obs.] — Dan"ger*ful*ly, adv. [Obs.] Udall.
Dangerless
(Dan"ger*less), a. Free from danger. [R.]
Dangerous
(Dan"ger*ous) a. [OE., haughty, difficult, dangerous, fr. OF. dangereus, F. dangereux. See
Danger.]
1. Attended or beset with danger; full of risk; perilous; hazardous; unsafe.
Our troops set forth to-morrow; stay with us;
The ways are dangerous.
Shak.
It is dangerous to assert a negative.
Macaulay. 2. Causing danger; ready to do harm or injury.
If they incline to think you dangerous
To less than gods.
Milton. 3. In a condition of danger, as from illness; threatened with death. [Colloq.] Forby. Bartlett.
4. Hard to suit; difficult to please. [Obs.]
My wages ben full strait, and eke full small;
My lord to me is hard and dangerous.
Chaucer. 5. Reserved; not affable. [Obs.] "Of his speech dangerous." Chaucer.
— Dan"ger*ous*ly, adv. — Dan"ger*ous*ness, n.
