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• Sure

  ·superl Betrothed; engaged to marry. II. Sure ·superl Free from danger; safe; secure. III. Sure ·a...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Pot-sure

  ·adj Made confident by drink. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Sure-footed

  ·adj Not liable to stumble or fall; as, a sure-footed horse. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• cock-sure

  Certain: a metaphor borrowed front the cock of a firelock, as being much more certain to fire than t...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• sure as a gun

  Absolutely certain. A common colloquial expression.--Brockett. There's luck, says auld Lizzy, in fa...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.