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Secure :: Secure (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..

Pass :: Pass (v. t.) To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure..

Holdfast :: Holdfast (n.) Something used to secure and hold in place something else, as a long fiat-headed nail, a catch a hook, a clinch, a clamp, etc.; hence, a support..

Contravallation :: Contravallation (n.) A trench guarded with a parapet, constructed by besiegers, to secure themselves and check sallies of the besieged..

Safety :: Safety (n.) Freedom from whatever exposes one to danger or from liability to cause danger or harm; safeness; hence, the quality of making safe or secure, or of giving confidence, justifying trust, insuring against harm or loss, etc..

Bowgrace :: Bowgrace (n.) A frame or fender of rope or junk, laid out at the sides or bows of a vessel to secure it from injury by floating ice..

Thrifty :: Thrifty (superl.) Secured by thrift; well husbanded.

Toed :: Toed (a.) Having the end secured by nails driven obliquely, said of a board, plank, or joist serving as a brace, and in general of any part of a frame secured to other parts by diagonal nailing..

Fixed :: Fixed (a.) Securely placed or fastened; settled; established; firm; imovable; unalterable.

Extent :: Extent (n.) A peculiar species of execution upon debts due to the crown, under which the lands and goods of the debtor may be seized to secure payment..

Guarantee :: Guarantee (n.) In law and common usage: to undertake or engage for the payment of (a debt) or the performance of (a duty) by another person; to undertake to secure (a possession, right, claim, etc.) to another against a specified contingency, or at all avents; to give a guarantee concerning; to engage, assure, or secure as a thing that may be depended on; to warrant; as, to guarantee the execution of a treaty..

Taut :: Taut (a.) Snug; close; firm; secure.

Refuge :: Refuge (n.) An expedient to secure protection or defense; a device or contrivance.

Whip :: Whip (v. t.) A person (as a member of Parliament) appointed to enforce party discipline, and secure the attendance of the members of a Parliament party at any important session, especially when their votes are needed..

Flitch :: Flitch (n.) One of several planks, smaller timbers, or iron plates, which are secured together, side by side, to make a large girder or built beam..

Guardian :: Guardian (v. t.) One who guards, preserves, or secures; one to whom any person or thing is committed for protection, security, or preservation from injury; a warden..

Disinsure :: Disinsure (v. t.) To render insecure; to put in danger.

Secure :: Secure (a.) Overconfident; incautious; careless; -- in a bad sense.

Secure :: Secure (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..

Pack :: Pack (n.) To sort and arrange (the cards) in a pack so as to secure the game unfairly.

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