Available Definitions:
1) n. - Force; violence.
2) n. - A roving motion; course without definite direction; want of direction, rule, or method; hazard; chance; -- commonly used in the phrase at random, that is, without a settled point of direction; at hazard.
3) n. - Distance to which a missile is cast; range; reach; as, the random of a rifle ball.
4) n. - The direction of a rake-vein.
5) a. - Going at random or by chance; done or made at hazard, or without settled direction, aim, or purpose; hazarded without previous calculation; left to chance; haphazard; as, a random guess.