Secure, sē-kūr′, adj. without care or anxiety, careless (B.): free from fear or danger: safe: confident: incautious: in safe keeping: of such strength as to ensure safety.—v.t. to make safe: to guard from danger: to seize and confine: to get hold of: to make one's self master of: (obs.) to plight or pledge: to render certain: to guarantee: to fasten.—adj. Secūr′able, that may be secured.—n. Secur′ance, assurance, confirmation.—adv. Secūre′ly.—ns. Secūre′ment; Secūre′ness; Secūr′er, one who, or that which, secures or protects; Secūr′itan, one who dwells in fancied security; Secūr′ity, state of being secure: freedom from fear: carelessness: protection: certainty: a pledge: (pl.) bonds or certificates in evidence of debt or property.—Secure arms, to guard the firearms from becoming wet. [L. securus—se- (for sine), without, cura, care.]
Securicula, sek-ū′-rik′ū-la, n. a little ax, a votive offering in this form.
Securifer, sē-kū′ri-fėr, n. a sawfly.—adjs. Secūrif′erous; Secū′riform, axe-shaped.
Securigera, sek-ū-rij′e-ra, n. a genus of leguminous plants—the hatchet-vetch, axe-fitch.
Securipalpi, sē-kūr-i-pal′pī, n. a group of beetles.
Securite, sek′ūr-īt, n. a modern high explosive in the form of a yellowish powder.
Sed, sed, n. a line fastening a fish-hook: a snood.
Sedan, sē-dan′, n. a covered chair for one, carried on two poles, generally by two bearers: a hand-barrow for fish. [Invented at Sedan, in France.]
Sedate, sē-dāt′, adj. quiet: serene: serious.—adv. Sedāte′ly.—n. Sedāte′ness, composure: tranquillity.—adj. Sed′ative, tending to make sedate: moderating: allaying irritation or pain.—n. a medicine that allays irritation or pain. [L. sedāre, -ātum, to seat, akin to sedēre, to sit.]