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  1. a. Perfectly safe.
  2. a. Quite certain.
  3. adj. marked by excessive confidence
  4. 1. Perfectly safe. [Obs.] We steal as in a castle, cocksure: . . . we walk invisible. Shak. 2. Quite certain. [Colloq.] I throught myself cocksure of the horse which he readily promised me. Pope.
  5. j:100 s. marked by excessive confidence