text: 1.liability or exposure to harm or injury; risk; peril.\n2.an instance or cause of peril; menace.\n3.Obsolete. power; jurisdiction; domain.\n[Origin: 1175–1225; ME da(u)nger < AF; OF dangier, alter. of dongier (by influence of dam damage) < VL *domniārium, equiv. to L domini(um) dominion + -ārium, neut. of -ārius -ary]