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care, or anxiety; easy in mind; not feeling suspicion or distrust; confident. But thou, secure of soul, unbent with woes. DRyden.

In a secure manner; without fear or apprehension; without danger; safely. His daring foe . . . securely him defied. Milton.

The act of securing; protection. [R.] Society condemns the securement in all cases of perpetual protection by means of perpetual imprisonment. C. A. Ives.

The condition or quality of being secure; exemption from fear; want of vigilance; security.

One who, or that which, secures.

The Serrifera.

Having the form of an ax hatchet.

One of a family of beetles having the maxillary palpi terminating in a hatchet-shaped joint.

The condition or quality of being secure; secureness. Specifically:

Of or pertaining to a sinecure; being in the nature of a sinecure.

quires or involves little or no responsibility, labor, or active service. A lucrative sinecure in the Excise. Macaulay.

The state of having a sinecure.

One who has a sinecure.

A current which, though too feeble to blow the usual fuse or to injure at once telegraph or telephone instruments, will in time burn them out.

A little lock of hair, plastered in a spiral form on the temple or forehead with spittle, or other adhesive substance. [Colloq.]

Somewhat obscurely or darkly. [R.] Donne.

hapel of ease; tributary. [R.] Not a city was without its cathedral, surrounded by its succursal churches, its monasteries, and convents. Milman.

Excessively curious or inquisitive. Evelyn.

A current, as of electricity, developed, or set in motion, by the action of heat.

To run or rove to and fro. [Obs.] Bacon.