(a.) Free from fear, care, or anxiety; easy in mind; not feeling
suspicion or distrust; confident.
(a.) Overconfident; incautious; careless; -- in a bad sense.
(a.) Confident in opinion; not entertaining, or not having
reason to entertain, doubt; certain; sure; -- commonly with of; as,
secure of a welcome.
(a.) Net exposed to danger; safe; -- applied to persons and
things, and followed by against or from.
(v. t.) To make safe; to relieve from apprehensions of, or
exposure to, danger; to guard; to protect.
(v. t.) To put beyond hazard of losing or of not receiving; to
make certain; to assure; to insure; -- frequently with against or from,
rarely with of; as, to secure a creditor against loss; to secure a debt
by a mortgage.
(v. t.) To make fast; to close or confine effectually; to render
incapable of getting loose or escaping; as, to secure a prisoner; to
secure a door, or the hatches of a ship.
(v. t.) To get possession of; to make one's self secure of; to
acquire certainly; as, to secure an estate.
