These are the meanings of the letters ECURIES when you unscramble them.
- Cereus (n.)
A genus of plants of the Cactus family. They are natives of America, from California to Chili.
- Cerise (a.)
Cherry-colored; a light bright red; -- applied to textile fabrics, especially silk.
- Ceruse (n.)
A cosmetic containing white lead.
- Ceruse (n.)
The native carbonate of lead.
- Ceruse (n.)
White lead, used as a pigment. See White lead, under White.
- Cruise (n.)
A voyage made in various directions, as of an armed vessel, for the protection of other vessels, or in search of an enemy; a sailing to and fro, as for exploration or for pleasure.
- Cruise (n.)
See Cruse, a small bottle.
- Cruise (v. i.)
To sail back and forth on the ocean; to sail, as for the potection of commerce, in search of an enemy, for plunder, or for pleasure.
- Cruise (v. i.)
To wander hither and thither on land.
- curies (unknown)
Sorry. I don't have the meaning of this word.
- Recuse (v. t.)
To refuse or reject, as a judge; to challenge that the judge shall not try the cause.
- Rescue (v.)
The act of rescuing; deliverance from restraint, violence, or danger; liberation.
- Rescue (v.)
The forcible liberation of a person from an arrest or imprisonment.
- Rescue (v.)
The forcible retaking, or taking away, against law, of things lawfully distrained.
- Rescue (v.)
The retaking by a party captured of a prize made by the enemy.
- Rescue (v. t.)
To free or deliver from any confinement, violence, danger, or evil; to liberate from actual restraint; to remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil; as, to rescue a prisoner from the enemy; to rescue seamen from destruction.
- Secure (a.)
Confident in opinion; not entertaining, or not having reason to entertain, doubt; certain; sure; -- commonly with of; as, secure of a welcome.
- Secure (a.)
Free from fear, care, or anxiety; easy in mind; not feeling suspicion or distrust; confident.
- Secure (a.)
Net exposed to danger; safe; -- applied to persons and things, and followed by against or from.
- Secure (a.)
Overconfident; incautious; careless; -- in a bad sense.
- Secure (v. t.)
To get possession of; to make one's self secure of; to acquire certainly; as, to secure an estate.
- 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.
- Secure (v. t.)
To make safe; to relieve from apprehensions of, or exposure to, danger; to guard; to protect.
- 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.