Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Dangerous; hazardous.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Dangerous; full of peril.

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  • adjective dangerous, hazardous, perilous

Etymologies

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Latin periculosus, dangerous, hazardous, perilous

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