Dān'ger-ous, a.
a. [Fr. dangereux. See DANGER.] 1. Attended with danger; full of risk; perilous; hazardous; unsafe. Our troops go forth to-morrow; stay with us; The ways are dangerous. Shak. It is dangerous to assert a negative. Macaulay. 2. Causing danger; threatening harm. Desperate revenge and battle dangerous To less than gods. Milton.
- In a condition of danger, as from illness; threatened with death. [Colloq.] Forby. Bartlett.
- Fearful of loss; chary; niggardly. [Obs.]
My wages ben full strait, and eke full small; My lord to me is hard and dangerous. Chaucer.