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.
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