(a) Free from danger, sickness, etc., safe; also, fully recovered; ~ and sauf, sauf and ~; (b) safe against attack, secure; also, private; ~ conduit, safe voyage; ~ and (et) sauf conduit [cp. OF sëurconduit], ~ passage, safe conduct, the privilege of safe conduct; ~ and sauf garde, security; (c) spiritually safe, on the right path to salvation; (d) secure against escape.

(a) Competent, trustworthy, dependable; (b) good of its kind, sound, reliable; of horses: sturdy; of water: free from salt or bitterness, pure; hit) is the seurer, it is better; (c) true, genuine; certain, definite; also as noun, in phrase: in ~, certainly; (d) not dangerous, safe to use.

(a) Assured, confident, convinced; having a confident opinion; certain (to do sth.); convinced (that sth. is so); ~ of, confident about (sth.), convinced of; also, confident in (oneself); in tag: be thou (ye, etc.) ~; (b) assured by law or other guarantee, guaranteed, certain; also as noun, in phrase: for ~, as something guaranteed; maken ~, to make (a settlement) legally secure; also, certify (a document); maken ~ to, ensure by law that (property) shall come to (sb.); (c) of a person: having complete certainty (to do sth.), guaranteed, certain; ~ of, certain to have (sth.); also, securely in possession of (sb. or sth.); also, sure of support from (sb.); maken ~, to give a guarantee to (sb. to do sth., that sth. shall be so); maken ~ of, guarantee (sb. sth.), give assurance to (sb.) of his getting (sth.); also, assure (sb.) about (sth.).

Strong, firm, resolute.

(a) Bound by allegiance; also, betrothed; (b) incapable of retaliation, certainly dead.

?Error for som adj., by misinterpretation of an abbreviation.