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worse; he pretends sometimes to trip, but it is to make you think him in danger when most secure. Dryden. What dost thou verily trip upon a word R. Browning.

A round of a rope or cord in order to secure it, as about a pin or a cleat.

Something serving to tie or secure. [Obs.] Latimer.

Not concerned; not anxious or solicitous; easy in mind; carelessly secure; indifferent; as, to be unconcerned at what has happened; to be unconcerned about the future. -- Un`con*cern"ed*ly, adv. -- Un`con*cern"ed*ness, n. Happy mortals, unconcerned for more. Dryden.

f it, to the proper height; also, something placed back of a part of the tympan, so as to secure the right impression.

g on upland; high in situation; as, upland inhabitants; upland pasturage. Sometimes, with secure delight The upland hamlets will invite. Milton.

In falconry, one of the rings secured to the ends of the jesses. [Written also vervel.]

Of or pertaining to ventilation; adapted to secure ventilation; ventilating; as, ventilative apparatus.

n built by the aid of grants from the board of Commissioners of National Education and is secured for educational purposes by leases to the commissioners themselves, or to the commissioners and the trustees.

A curtain of light and translucent material intended to be secured directly to the woodwork of a French casement window or a glazed door.

A timber bolted to a row of piles to secure them together and in position. Knight.

g to a ridge in the lock which it fits; a ward notch. Knight. The lock is made . . . more secure by attaching wards to the front, as well as to the back, plate of the lock, in which case the key must be furnished with corresponding notches. Tomlinson.

To deposit or secure in a warehouse.

To make secure; to give assurance against harm; to guarantee safety to; to give authority or power to do, or forbear to do, anything by which the person authorized is secured, or saved harmless, from any loss or damage by his action. That show I first my body to warrant. Chaucer. I'll warrant him from drowning. Shak. I…

One who assures, or covenants to assure; one who contracts to secure another in a right, or to make good any defect of title or quality; one who gives a warranty; a guarantor; as, the warranter of a horse.

To guard or secure by a firm wall of timber or stone constructed like a wharf; to furnish with a wharf or wharfs.

A mode of facing sea walls and embankments with planks driven as piles and secured by ties. Knight.

To secure the end of (a rope, or the like) from untwisting by overcasting it with small stuff.

Made of, secured by, or covered with, wickers or wickerwork. Ships of light timber, wickered with osier between, and covered over with leather. Milton.

end of a mast or boom, with a ring, through which another mast or boom is rigged out and secured; a wythe. R. H. Dana, Jr.