Adjective : The building was secure, even in an earthquake. ,He needed a secure hideout. ,Here in the vault the necklace was secure. ,emotionally secure. ,He earned a secure place among the baseball immortals. ,secure of victory; secure in religious belief. ,secure radio communications between army units. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used with object) : to secure materials; to secure a high government position. ,Sandbags secured the town during the flood. ,The novel secured his reputation. ,to secure a rope. ,to secure the doors. ,The regiment secured its position. ,No one is safe until the murderer is secured. ,to secure diplomatic phone conversations. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used without object) : The crew was ordered to secure for sea. ,to secure from general quarters. From Dictionary.com.
Door securer and combined tool, P.E. Rudel 212,512. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American, Volume 40, No. 13, March 29, 1879 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures] Reference
Gmail is actually a lot securer than Hotmail in this respect. From Wordnik.com. [Never Use Inactive Webmail As Your Secondary Email Account | Lifehacker Australia] Reference
Surely the editor of the TLS should be on securer ground here. From Wordnik.com. [Peter Stothard - Times Online - WBLG:] Reference
Did it offer any securer hiding-place than the part in which they were?. From Wordnik.com. [Jack Haydon's Quest] Reference
It was pierced in the brim for a hat- securer, but the elastic was missing. From Wordnik.com. ["You know who I love?"] Reference
It was pierced in the brim for a hat - securer, but the elastic was missing. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes]
Naturally, the more miserable the masses are, the securer the rulers must be. From Wordnik.com. [Rulers Enjoying Life, But People Dying of Hunger] Reference
Joshua drew himself into securer, position on the camel and shook its harness. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
What happened was, was that we assumed that politics would make the society securer. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 8, 2008] Reference
But they had failed in this for the Missisippi and Fishery were now much securer than if I had been alone. From Wordnik.com. [John Adams diary 36, 17 - 22 November 1782] Reference
This will be an advantage not merely in putting this welfare work upon a securer basis, but in enlisting the loyalty of the masses to the. From Wordnik.com. [Problems of Conduct] Reference
Whereupon I bethought me it would be safe to venture up once more, and bring my daughter Waller to the securer custody of my excellent wife. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844] Reference
And the securer business of certifying invoices recommenced. From Wordnik.com. [Stories in Light and Shadow] Reference
Ritters, and generally establishes things on securer footing. From Wordnik.com. [The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing] Reference
Are human generosity and affection founded on no securer basis?. From Wordnik.com. [Bressant] Reference
It was pierced in the brim for a hat-securer, but the elastic was missing. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes] Reference
Holding to a gentleman's purse is even securer than holding to a gentleman. From Wordnik.com. [Rhoda Fleming — Complete] Reference
After a time I felt securer, and gave my mind again to the dead I had killed. From Wordnik.com. [Tono Bungay] Reference
As regards Port Adelaide itself, I cannot imagine a securer or a more convenient harbour. From Wordnik.com. [Expedition into Central Australia] Reference
Then began agriculture, and for the sake of securer food man tethered himself to a place. From Wordnik.com. [An Englishman Looks at the World] Reference
If I had profited by their learning, so much greater, or at least securer, than any the average. From Wordnik.com. [Roman Holidays, and Others] Reference
Caw! caw! caw! and, launching themselves sullenly on the air, took flight to some securer solitude. From Wordnik.com. [Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2.] Reference
"Here is the foresight," said he putting his finger upon the little disc and loop of the hat-securer. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes] Reference
But in the whole I was mightily pleased, reckoning myself now fifty per cent. securer in my place than. From Wordnik.com. [Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete] Reference
I'll be securer then, more necessary to this pair of plunderers, able to make better terms for myself. From Wordnik.com. [The Great God Success] Reference
For those who did not wish to be disturbed after death, the charnel-house was the securer place of burial. From Wordnik.com. [Two Summers in Guyenne] Reference
As if negative lies are not falser and more cowardly than positive lies, because securer and more deceptive. From Wordnik.com. [The Deluge] Reference
When you carry the data and info from page to page, the less inform, the securer, and the better the performance. From Wordnik.com. [ASP.NET Forums] Reference
Indeed, we might even hold Milton to be securer in this place than Goethe, who has not yet been a hundred years in his grave. From Wordnik.com. [Inquiries and Opinions] Reference
She had felt, from the outset, a secret reluctance to intrude her securer happiness on the doubts and fears of the young pair. From Wordnik.com. [The Reef] Reference
"Texas" just after Captain Philip had left it for the securer retreat of the conning tower, and one exploded in the smokestack. From Wordnik.com. [The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 (of 2)] Reference
But in the whole I was mightily pleased, reckoning myself now fifty per cent. securer in my place than I did before think myself to be. From Wordnik.com. [Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 73: April/May 1669] Reference
Of all the Americans who have lived, none is securer of lasting remembrance than Rutherford B. Hayes, who was born in Delaware, October. From Wordnik.com. [Stories Of Ohio] Reference
He netted them over the wagon top and lashed the ends to the wheels to make the top securer, working rapidly, eyes on the advancing storm. From Wordnik.com. [The Covered Wagon] Reference
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