Vocabulary : Safe-pledge to Safranine

Safe-pledge : A surety for the appearance of a person at a given time.
Safety : A safety touchdown. ;; Short for Safety bicycle. ;; The condition or state of being safe; freedom from danger or hazard; exemption from hurt, injury, or loss. ;; 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. ;; Preservation from escape; close custody. ;; Same as Safety touchdown, below.
Safety bicycle : A bicycle with equal or nearly equal wheels, usually 28 inches diameter, driven by pedals connected to the rear (driving) wheel by a multiplying gear.
Safety chain : A normally slack chain for preventing excessive movement between a truck and a car body in sluing. ;; An auxiliary watch chain, secured to the clothes, usually out of sight, to prevent stealing of the watch. ;; A chain of sheet metal links with an elongated hole through each broad end, made up by doubling the first link on itself, slipping the next link through and doubling, and so on.
Safflow : The safflower.
Safflower : An annual composite plant (Carthamus tinctorius), the flowers of which are used as a dyestuff and in making rouge; bastard, or false, saffron. ;; The dried flowers of the Carthamus tinctorius. ;; A dyestuff from these flowers. See Safranin (b).
Saffron : A bulbous iridaceous plant (Crocus sativus) having blue flowers with large yellow stigmas. See Crocus. ;; The aromatic, pungent, dried stigmas, usually with part of the stile, of the Crocus sativus. Saffron is used in cookery, and in coloring confectionery, liquors, varnishes, etc., and was formerly much used in medicine. ;; An orange or deep yellow color, like that of the stigmas of the Crocus sativus. ;; Having the color of the stigmas of saffron flowers; deep orange-yellow; as, a saffron face; a saffron streamer. ;; To give color and flavor to, as by means of saffron; to spice.
Saffrony : Having a color somewhat like saffron; yellowish.
Safranin : An orange-red dyestuff extracted from the saffron. ;; A red dyestuff extracted from the safflower, and formerly used in dyeing wool, silk, and cotton pink and scarlet; -- called also Spanish red, China lake, and carthamin. ;; An orange-red dyestuff prepared from certain nitro compounds of creosol, and used as a substitute for the safflower dye.
Safranine : An orange-red nitrogenous dyestuff produced artificially by oxidizing certain aniline derivatives, and used in dyeing silk and wool; also, any one of the series of which safranine proper is the type.
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