Her sadness and her benignity.
Chaucer.
3. Quality of being sad, or unhappy; gloominess; sorrowfulness;
dejection.
Dim sadness did not spare That time celestial visages.
Milton.
Syn. -- Sorrow; heaviness; dejection. See Grief.
||Sadr (?), n. (Bot.) A plant of the genus Ziziphus (Z. lotus); -- so
||called by the Arabs of Barbary, who use its berries for food. See
||Lotus (b).
||Saeng"er*fest (?), n. [G. sängerfest.] A festival of singers; a
||German singing festival.
Safe (?), a. [Compar. Safer (?); superl. Safest.] [OE. sauf, F. sauf,
fr. L. salvus, akin to salus health, welfare, safety. Cf. Salute,
Salvation, Sage a plant, Save, Salvo an exception.] 1. Free from harm,
injury, or risk; untouched or unthreatened by danger or injury;
unharmed; unhurt; secure; whole; as, safe from disease; safe from
storms; safe from foes. "And ye dwelled safe." 1 Sam. xii. 11.
They escaped all safe to land.
Acts xxvii. 44.
Established in a safe, unenvied throne.
Milton.
2. Conferring safety; securing from harm; not exposing to danger;
confining securely; to be relied upon; not dangerous; as, a safe
harbor; a safe bridge, etc. "The man of safe discretion." Shak.
The King of heaven hath doomed This place our dungeon, not our safe
retreat.
Milton.
3. Incapable of doing harm; no longer dangerous; in secure care or
custody; as, the prisoner is safe.
But Banquo's safe? Ay, my good lord, safe in a ditch he bides.
Shak.
Safe hit (Baseball), a hit which enables the batter to get to first
base even if no error is made by the other side.
Syn. -- Secure; unendangered; sure.
Safe (?), n. A place for keeping things in safety. Specifically: (a) A
strong and fireproof receptacle (as a movable chest of steel, etc., or
a closet or vault of brickwork) for containing money, valuable papers,
or the like. (b) A ventilated or refrigerated chest or closet for
securing provisions from noxious animals or insects.
Safe, v. t. To render safe; to make right. [Obs.] Shak.
Safe"-con"duct (?), n. [Safe + conduct: cf. F. sauf-conduit.] That
which gives a safe passage; either (a) a convoy or guard to protect a
person in an enemy's country or a foreign country, or (b) a writing,
pass, or warrant of security, given to a person to enable him to travel
with safety. Shak.
Safe`-con*duct" (?), v. t. To conduct safely; to give safe-conduct to.
[Poetic]
He him by all the bonds of love besought To safe-conduct his love.
Spenser.
Safe"guard` (?), n. [Safe = guard: cf. F. sauvegarde.] 1. One who, or
that which, defends or protects; defense; protection. Shak.
Thy sword, the safeguard of thy brother's throne.
Granville.