What does "venture" mean?

Additional senses

1. 2.The thing put to hazard; a stake; a risk; especially, something sent to sea in trade. My ventures are not in one bottom trusted. Shak. At a venture, at hazard; without seeing the end or mark; without foreseeing the issue; at random. A certain man drew a bow at a venture. 1 Kings xxii.
2. 3.A bargain at a venture made. Hudibras. Note: The phrase at a venture was originally at aventure, that is, at adventure.
3. 4.To hazard one's self; to have the courage or presumption to do, undertake, or say something; to dare. Bunyan.
4. 5.To make a venture; to run a hazard or risk; to take the chances. Who freights a ship to venture on the seas. J. Dryden, Jr. To venture at, or To venture on or upon, to dare to engage in; to attempt without any certainty of success; as, it is rash to venture upon such a project. "When I venture at the comic style." Waller.
5. 6.To expose to hazard; to risk; to hazard; as, to venture one's person in a balloon. I am afraid; and yet I'll venture it. Shak.
6. 7.To put or send on a venture or chance; as, to venture a horse to the West Indies.
7. 8.To confide in; to rely on; to trust. [R.] A man would be well enough pleased to buy silks of one whom he would not venture to feel his pulse. Addison.